Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1048820
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1048820
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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 MARY
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:
- Little Coxwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 28190 93534
Details
1. LITTLE COXWELL SU 29 SE 2/8 21.11.66 Church of St Mary
II*
2. Transitional with Early English and Perpendicular alterations and an extensive late C19 restoration. Rubble stone and roughcast with stone dressings, gabled stone tiled roof and dressed stone copings. 2 bay nave, 2 bay chancel, double bellcote between nave and chancel, S porch and N vestry. S side of nave has a pointed headed window of 2 cusped lights and a Perpendicular 3 cusped light window under a flat head with carved label heads - one with a sugar bag hat. Nave N side has a C19 2 cusped light window. The gabled bellcote is C13 with 2 pointed openings and a quatrefoil above with a sundial on its S face. S side of chancel has a Perp. window of 2 tiers of 4 cusped lights with a transom between under a flat head with shield labels, a plainly moulded Transitional priest's door and one 2 cusped light C19 window. C19 Decorated style 3 light window to the E and a similar C19 W window with a quatrefoil in a roundel above. Perp. S porch with a gabled stone tiled roof and a four-centred arch with dripstone and label heads enclosing a studded plank and batten C19 door. Transitional S doorway with slim colonettes, plain moulded capitals and an arch of two orders, the inner a plain roll moulding, the outer of billet. 2 celled aiseless interior with a C19 W gallery fronted by reused sections of a c14 screen and an open rafter roof with tie beams and cusped braces. Transitional ogee-headed chancel arch on plain stopped and chamfered jambs and on the chancel S wall a trefoil-headed piscina. On either side of the E window are 2 cusped headed niches - one presumably a blocked Early English window. Good 1896 stained glass E window depicting the crucifixion by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. Fine brass 'spider' chandelier dated 1729, wrought iron hour-glass stand by pulpit and Royal Arms above chancel arch.
Listing NGR: SU2819093534
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 250554
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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