Church of St Laurence
CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1052756
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Laurence
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1052756
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Laurence
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LAURENCE
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 LAURENCE
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:
- West Challow
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 36666 88328
Details
WEST CHALLOW SU38NE 2/178 Church of St. Laurence 24/11/66
GV II*
Church. Late C12; late C13 chancel; restored in mid C19. Roughcast over limestone walling; limestone ashlar dressings; stone slate roof; C20 lateral brick stack on limestone ashlar base. Nave and chancel. Late C13 two-light east window, angle buttresses. Side walls of chancel have C15 two-light square-headed windows. South side of nave has mid C19 Plate-tracery 2-light windows flanking early C16 four-centred moulded and blocked doorway. North side of nave has mid C19 two-light C15 style window and late C12 round-headed doorway with waterleaf capitals to single order of shafts. C15 gabled porch has cusped and decorative bargeboard; timber structure and screens to sides over low limestone rubble wall restored in mid C19. West gable has angle buttresses, late C13 trefoil-headed lancet and late C13 double bellcote. Gabled roof. Interior: Chancel has 2 corbels for statues, piscina restored in mid C19, wall tablet to Elizabeth Hobbs, d.1757, and John Hobbs, d.1730. C15 chancel screen with one-light divisions. Nave has early C17 panelled pulpit and C13 tub-shaped font. C18 tie-beam roof. Stained glass: Mid/late C19, except fragments of C15 glass at top of east window. (Buildings of England: Berkshire, pp.262-3).
Listing NGR: SU3666688328
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 251277
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 262 263
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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