Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1053441
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- 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:
- 1053441
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- 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:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Swinbrook and Widford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 27987 12147
Details
SWINBROOK AND WIDFORD SWINBROOK SP2712 13/128 Church of St. Mary 12/09/55 GV II*
Church. C11 origins; C12 north aisle; probably C13 south aisle; tower c.1822; C20 vestry and restoration. Uncoursed stone rubble; stone slate roofs, roof to tower not visible. 2-bay chancel, 3-bay aisled nave and west tower. South side: stone porch to left of aisle with 2-centre archway on corbels, and 2-centre inner doorway having C20 plank door. Paired cusped lancets to centre of aisle. 2-light stone mullion window with hood mould to right of aisle. Blocked doorway to right of centre. Paired cusped lancets to right return of aisle. Single-light window to left of chancel. Blocked 3-light stone mullion window with cusped lights and hood mould to right of chancel. 4 cusped windows to clerestory. 5-light Rectilinear-tracery window to east end of chancel. North side: C20 vestry with hood moulds to left of centre of aisle, and to right; that to right has ogee-headed lights. 3-light stone mullion window with ogee-headed lights to left of aisle. 4 cusped windows to clerestory. West end: blocked 2-centre-arched doorway to centre. 2-light Reticulated-tracery window above. Tower carried on projecting buttresses. 4-centre-arched openings to each face of tower. Battlemented parapet. Interior: arch-braced collar truss roof to chancel. Fettiplace monuments to chancel, those to left of c.1613 and 1686 each of 3 reclining figures on shelves with ornate round-arched surrounds, that to right of 1743 by James Annis is a marble bust against drapery and cherubs with broken-pediment surround. C15 choir stalls with misericords. 2-centre chancel arch on Romanesque columns. Nave: C20 braced collar-truss roof. Nave arcades of three 2-centre arches on Romanesque piers. C17 wood pulpit on C20 stone stepped base. Fragments of medieval glass to south aisle window. C15 stone font. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: 1979, pp799-801)
Listing NGR: SP2798712147
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253687
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 799-801
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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