Church of St Lawrence
CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, ST LAWRENCE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1048297
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1966
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, ST LAWRENCE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1048297
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jun-1987
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, ST LAWRENCE ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, ST LAWRENCE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- South Hinksey
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 50973 03969
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30/08/2012
SP50SW
7/121
09/02/66
SOUTH HINKSEY
ST. LAWRENCE ROAD
(West side)
Church of St. Lawrence
(Formerly listed as: St. Lawrence's Church, St Lawrence's Road)
GV
II*
Church. Early/mid C13: late C15 tower: chancel rebuilt in late C18. Uncoursed
limestone rubble, coursed to chancel: tower of dressed limestone. Stone-coped
gabled stone slate roof. Chancel, nave and west tower. One-bay late C18 chancel
has round-arched leaded windows with raised key- and impost-blocks. 3-bay south
wall of nave has C13 pointed lancets (one with scratch dial) and paired lancet
with late C19 head and mullion: north wall of nave has early C14 two-light
ogee-headed window, late C19 timber and glazed porch and C17 chamfered
round-arched doorway. Tower: revealed 2-light cinquefoil-headed window above
plain chamfered 4-centred doorway to ancient studded door, cemented at base:
2-light round-arched belfry windows: stair-turret with slit light to north side.
Interior: C13 chamfered 2-centred chancel arch. Medieval rood stairs in
south-east corner of nave: squint from former rood-loft to altar above chancel
arch. 3 arches over double piscina with quatrefoil basins. C13 tub font.
Hollow-chamfered archway with moulded imposts to tower. Rood screen built in
1932, pulpit in 1936 and nave roof in 1959. Plain mid C19 and C20 wall tablets
in chancel: floor tablet to Jane Willis, d.1723, in nave floor.
(Buildings of England: Berkshire, p.222; V.C.H.: Berkshire, Vol.IV, p.409).
Listing NGR: SP5097303969
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249798
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 222
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 409
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