Church of the Holy Trinity
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, NUFFIELD HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1059326
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, NUFFIELD HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1059326
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, NUFFIELD HILL
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 THE HOLY TRINITY, NUFFIELD HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Nuffield
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 66764 87345
Details
NUFFIELD NUFFIELD HILL SU68NE (South side) 5/143 Church of the Holy Trinity 09/02/59 II*
Church. C12, C14 north aisle and alterations, and chancel restored c.1845 by Benjamin Ferrey. Unknapped flint with stone dressings; old plain-tile roof, wood shingles to tower. 3-bay nave with north tower, 2-bay north aisle, and 3-bay chancel. Blocked Romanesque doorway to left of nave. Two 2-light Y-tracery windows to centre and right of nave, Plank door to centre of chancel. 2-light Y-tracery window to left of chancel. Quatrefoil window to right. 3-light Reticulated tracery window to right return. Left return: Studded plank door with 2-centred arch with hood mould to centre of end of nave. 2-light Y-tracery window above. Square tower to left with rectangular glazed opening, and shingles to top stage with pyramidal plain-tile roof. Rear: Blocked Romanesque doorway to centre of aisle. 2-light Y-tracery window to left of centre of aisle. Lancet to left of chancel, 2-light Y-tracery window to right. Interior: Reset medieval tiles to floor of chancel. C19 piscina to right of chancel. C19 stained glass to chancel. 2-centre Early English chancel arch with hood mould. 2-bay arcade to aisle with transitional column to centre and half-column to left. Romanesque font with inscription in Lombardic letters "(Fon)te sacro lotum vel mundat gratia totum, vel non est sacramenti mundacio plena." Brass to nave floor to Benert Engliss of c,1360. C15 roof to nave with moulded ribs and decorative carved bosses. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.724).
Listing NGR: SU6676487345
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247852
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 724
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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