Organ Blowing Chamber in St Helen's Churchyard

ORGAN BLOWING CHAMBER IN ST HELEN'S CHURCHYARD, WEST ST HELEN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1048812
Date first listed:
10-Dec-1971
List Entry Name:
Organ Blowing Chamber in St Helen's Churchyard
Statutory Address:
ORGAN BLOWING CHAMBER IN ST HELEN'S CHURCHYARD, WEST ST HELEN STREET
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1048812
Date first listed:
10-Dec-1971
List Entry Name:
Organ Blowing Chamber in St Helen's Churchyard
Statutory Address 1:
ORGAN BLOWING CHAMBER IN ST HELEN'S CHURCHYARD, WEST ST HELEN STREET

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ORGAN BLOWING CHAMBER IN ST HELEN'S CHURCHYARD, WEST ST HELEN STREET

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:
Abingdon on Thames
National Grid Reference:
SU 49691 96747

Details

SU 4996 1/204B
752

WEST ST HELEN STREET (West Side),
Organ Blowing Chamber in St Helen's churchyard

(Formerly listed as Outhouse to Brick Alley Almshouses in church yard to north of front elevation)

II

Organ Blowing Chamber. Built 1927. Forms one stylistic composition with the almshouses. Square one storey building in red and blue chequered brick. Hipped tile roof. Wood dentil eaves cornice. Red brick panelled quoins. Red brick plinth. Arched doorway in red brick architrave. One round arched window to west face with leaded glazing and tiled cill.


Listing NGR: SU4969096747

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Oxfordshire Buildings Record, OBR.204 Organ Blowing Chamber, St Helen's Churchyard, Abingdon, 2013,

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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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