CHURCHYARD GATEWAY APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES EAST OF THE VICARAGE

CHURCHYARD GATEWAY APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES EAST OF THE VICARAGE, NEW ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1052540
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1956
List Entry Name:: CHURCHYARD GATEWAY APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES EAST OF THE VICARAGE
Statutory Address:: CHURCHYARD GATEWAY APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES EAST OF THE VICARAGE, NEW ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1052540
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1956
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-May-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCHYARD GATEWAY APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES EAST OF THE VICARAGE
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCHYARD GATEWAY APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES EAST OF THE VICARAGE, NEW 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:: CHURCHYARD GATEWAY APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES EAST OF THE VICARAGE, NEW ROAD

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Great Tew
National Grid Reference:: SP3977828809

Details

GREAT TEW NEW ROAD SP3928 (East side) 12/40 Churchyard gateway approx. 27/08/56 20m. E of The Vicarage (Formerly listed as Gateway leading to Churchyard) GV II Gateway with gate. Early/mid C17; mid C19 gate. Limestone ashlar with cast-iron gate. Gateway is formed from re-used piers which have, on the front, vermiculated banding and break forward to contain shell-headed recesses below oval niches. The head consists of inverted festoons of fruit flanking a double-stepped keyblock; a moulded coping extends over the piers. The rear of the doorway has an angle roll. Probably originally a much wider gateway in the grounds of Great Tew House (q.v.). (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire. Vol.XI, p.244; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.626; C.Hussey, "Great Tew, Oxfordshire - I", Country Life, July 22, 1949).

Listing NGR: SP3977828809

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Legacy System number:: 251850
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 626
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 244
'Country Life' in Country Life, (1949)

Legal

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