Church of St Leonard
CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, SOUTH STOKE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1059502
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, SOUTH STOKE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1059502
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Leonard
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LEONARD, SOUTH STOKE ROAD
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 LEONARD, SOUTH STOKE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Woodcote
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 64375 82155
Details
SU68SW WOODCOTE SOUTH STOKE ROAD (North side) 5/251 Church of St Leonard
GV II
Church. C12 foundations; rebuilt 1846 by H J Underwood. Flint with stone dressings; plain tile roof. 3-bay nave and chancel with apse end. Romanesque Revival style. Gabled porch to left of centre with glazed C20 double outer doors; C19 inner door with wrought iron hinges. Round-arched main doorway with 2 orders of columns. Plank door to chancel with wrought iron hinges and round arched head, with single order of columns. Round-headed lancets to all openings. Bellcote to left hand gable end. Interior: Romanesque style font with round column base and square top with carved roundels to each side. Romanesque style pulpit with round column base and hexagonal top with each face having a blind round headed arch supported on columns. Pulpit approached by spiral stone steps with wrought iron balustrade. Encaustic tiles to floor of chancel and glazed embossed tiles form dado to chancel. Romanesque style wooden altar rail. Organ gallery to west end with Romanesque style balustrade. C19 stained glass window to chancel by Powell and Sons. Verses from Bible painted over nave windows. Hammer beam roof trusses. A good example of the Romanesque Revival style. (Building of England: Oxfordshire, p.852).
Listing NGR: SU6437582155
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247468
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 852
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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