Church of Saint Nicholas
CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1053514
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1053514
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT NICHOLAS
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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 SAINT NICHOLAS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Asthall
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 28715 11390
Details
ASTHALL SP2811 17/4 Church of Saint Nicholas 12/09/55 GV II*
Church. Romanesque origins. C13 north transept, north aisle, and chancel; C14 remodelling of north transept; restoration of c.1885 by Collier and Merrin. Random-coursed stone rubble; stone slate roof. 3 bay nave and north aisle, north transept, chancel and west tower. Stone porch to centre of north aisle, with 2-centred archway with hoodmould and C19 ribbed door. C19 six-panel double inner door to 2-centre arched doorway with hoodmould having carved end stops. 3-light stone mullion window with cusped lights to left of north aisle. Lancet to right of north aisle. 3-light Reticulated tracery window to north end of north transept. 3-light stone mullion window with ogee-headed lights to left of nave. 3-light stone mullion window with cusped lights to right of nave. Triple lancet to right of chancel. 2-light Plate tracery window to centre of chancel. 2-light stone mullion window with cusped lights to left of chancel. West end: 3-light Geometrical tracery window to end of North aisle. West tower of 3 stages: C19 ribbed door to 2-centred arched doorway with hoodmould. 3-light Rectilinear-tracery window to west side of second stage. 2-light Rectilinear-tracery louvred openings to each side of third stage. Battlemented parapet. Interior: chancel has barrel-vaulted panelled roof with painted panels. C19 wall paintings with a dado to sanctuary of fleur-de-lys and roundels; above dado are roundels depicting various Biblical figures. C19 encaustic tile floor to chancel, C19 altar rail. C19 two-centred chancel arch. 2-centred arch from chancel to north transept on half-columns. North transept has arch-braced collar truss roof, and tomb recess of c.1350 of reclining female figure having lion to feet with 2-centred cusped and crocketed gabled arch flanked by finials. C19 arch-braced collar truss roof to nave, with kingposts. Arcade to north aisle of 3 two-centred arches on round piers with square bases and capitals. 2-centred arch to tower with C19 wood screen. Arch-braced collar-truss roof to north aisle. 2-centred arch from north aisle to transept on columns with volute capitals. Romanesque round stone font to north aisle with C19 wood cover. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: 1979, pp424-425)
Listing NGR: SP2871511390
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253560
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 424-5
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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