Church of St. Lawrence
Church of St. Lawrence, Faringdon Road, Tubney
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048405
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Lawrence
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St. Lawrence, Faringdon Road, Tubney
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048405
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Lawrence
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St. Lawrence, Faringdon Road, Tubney
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St. Lawrence, Faringdon Road, Tubney
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:
- Fyfield and Tubney
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 43556 99249
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 August 2023 to remove superfluous source details from text and to reformat the text to current standards
SU49NW
5/55
FYFIELD AND TUBNEY
Tubney
FARINGDON ROAD (north side)
Church of St. Lawrence
(Formerly listed as Church of St. Lawrences)
25/01/72
GV
II
Church. 1844-7, by Augustus Northmore Welby Pugin for Magdalen College, Oxford. Coursed limestone rubble, ashlar dressings; gabled stone slate roof with crested ridge tiles; concrete tile roof to vestry and adjoining part of chancel roof; stone gable end stack to vestry. Chancel with north vestry, nave with west bellcote. Gothic Revival style. Decorated-style three-light east window. Vestry has plain pointed doorway and shallow pointed moulded surrounds to two-light windows. Two bay chancel and four bay nave have one- and two-light trefoil-headed windows. Gabled south porch to left has plain pointed chamfered doorways. Offset buttresses at all bay divisions: west bellcote supported by offset buttress at centre of west wall.
Interior: chancel has finely carved reredos, benches with carved bench ends, communion rail and priest's chair with curved stretchers. Encaustic tile floor: trussed rafter roof with embattled wall plate has fine stencilled painting, probably by Pugin. Nave has pulpit, lectern and some benches with carved ends by Pugin. Octagonal font, with carved panels and bowl supports, given by Queen Adelaide. Three fine chandeliers, and three candelabra on each wall. The plans by Pugin (dated 1844) and much correspondence relating to the church's building survive at Magdalen College, Oxford. The church cost £596 to build: Pugin wrote, "I first drew it out with a Tower, but it then cost 645, so I have altered it into a Belfry". This church was Pugin's only Anglican commission.
Listing NGR: SU4355699249
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249553
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 242-3
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 300
Stanton, P, Pugin, (1971), 132, 205
Other
For watercolours, drawing and plan signed by Pugin 1844 see Magdalene College
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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