CHURCH OF ST JAMES

CHURCH OF ST JAMES, STANDLAKE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1052435
Date first listed:: 17-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES, STANDLAKE ROAD

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Date:: 2004-11-16
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1052435
Date first listed:: 17-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES, STANDLAKE ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES, STANDLAKE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney
National Grid Reference:: SP 34223 03062

Details

ASTON BAMPTON AND SHIFFORD STANDLAKE ROAD SP30SW (North side) Aston 9/20 church of St. James

GV II

Church. 1839, by Thomas Greenshields; sanctuary added 1862 by J. Clarke; further alterations of 1885-9 by H. Drinkwater. Squared and coursed limestone with ashlar quoins and dressings; gabled concrete tile roof. Cruciform plan with west tower. Lancet style. 3-light Geometrical-style east window. One-bay chancel, 2-bay transepts and 4-bay nave have lancet windows with blocks to hood-mould stops. Gabled ends of transepts each have blind round window above ribbed door set in similar pointed doorways. West tower has similar ground-floor lancets, and hood moulds over similar west door and louvred first-stage lancets; broached and ribbed ashlar spire has gablets over trefoiled and louvred lights. Interior: double-chamfered sanctuary and transept arches; similar west doorway. Mid C19 benches, stalls, lectern and Geometrical-style pulpit. Octagonal Geometrical-style font in south transept. Lancet-style panelling in south porch. Queen-strut trusses have pointed-arched braces. Stained glass: C20 memorial glass. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.426).

Listing NGR: SP3422303062

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Legacy System number:: 252091
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 426

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.