Church of St Mary Magdalene
CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1059582
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, THE STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-02-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/05126/21
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1059582
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, THE STREET
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 MAGDALENE, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Crowmarsh
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 61466 89314
Details
CROWMARSH THE STREET SU68NW (North side) Crowmarsh Gifford 2/27 Church of St. Mary Magdalene 09/02/59
GV I
Church. C12; north transept added c.1200. Roughcast, probably on stone rubble, with stone dressings; plain tile roof; wooden bell tower with plain tile pyramidal roof to ridge left. Nave, chancel and north transept plan. Central blocked Romanesque round arched doorway with columns with waterleaf capital to right, uncarved capital to left. Romanesque lancet to left with hood mould with foliate ends. Romanesque lancets to left and right of centre with incised arches to the stone surrounds. 3-light Perpendicular window to right with hood mould with end stops. 3 Romanesque lancets to chancel with incised arches to stone surrounds. Left return: Central double, studded, round-headed door in arch of three orders. the inner plain, the central roll-moulded, the outer with scallop decoration. Carved capitals to columns. Star-in-square decoration to imposts and hood. Romanesque lancet above. Round window to left and right. Right return: Romanesque lancet to centre with recess below formed from Romanesque sculptured fragments. Rear: 3 Romanesque lancets to nave; blocked Romanesque doorway; quatrefoil window to transept; single trefoil lancets to returns of transept. Interior: Romanesque circular font with blind arcade of spiral fluted pilasters, on C19 columned base. Romanesque piscina to south wall of chancel with moulded arch and projecting circular fluted bowl. Probably Jacobean wooden pulpit on C19 stone base. Romanesque east window to chancel with column with carved capitals and zig-zag and dog tooth mouldings to arch; blind arched openings to left and right. C19 restoration of Romanesque arcade of 3 windows to right side of chancel. Romanesque chancel arch. 2-centred transept arch. Jumbled C17 Belgian stained glass to quatrefoil window and lancets of transept. Reset C16 brass to transept arch. (Buildings of England: 0xfordshire, p.561-2. St. Mary Magdalene: Crowmarsh Giffard Guidebook by Crowaarsh History Group 1984).
Listing NGR: SU6147089312
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247245
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 561-2
Crowmarsh History Group, , St Mary Magdalene Crowmarsh Guidebook, (1984)
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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