Church of St Paul

CHURCH OF ST PAUL, THE GREEN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1059792
Date first listed:
18-Jul-1963
List Entry Name:
Church of St Paul
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, THE GREEN
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1059792
Date first listed:
18-Jul-1963
List Entry Name:
Church of St Paul
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, THE GREEN

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, THE GREEN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Culham
National Grid Reference:
SU 50180 94972

Details

CULHAM THE GREEN SU5094 (South side) 12/37 Church of St. Paul 18/07/63

GV II

Church. Tower c.1710; nave, aisles and south transept c.1852 by Joseph Clarke; chancel c.1872 by R.P. Spiers. Uncoursed stone rubble to tower; squared coursed stone to church with ashlar stone dressings; old plain-tile roof; roof of tower not visible. 4-bay nave and north aisle, south transept, chancel and west tower. Early English style. 2-centred archway with hood mould and triangular moulded surround to porch to left of centre of nave. Double plank doors with wrought iron hinges to 2-centre arched doorway. 2-light plate tracery and trefoil lancet windows. Doorway with plank door to base of tower; tower of 2 stages. Louvred opening to each side of top of tower. Plain parapet to tower with stepped corners. Interior: wooden barrel-vault to chancel, 4-bay arch-braced collar truss roof to nave. C19 stencil decoration to chancel walls. Piscina to right of chancel. 2-centred chancel arch on half-columns. 2-centred transept arch on corbels. Aisle arcade of three 2-centred arches on columns. C19 pews with wrought iron candelabra to ends. C19 octagonal stone font with pierced wood cover. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p.565; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.7, 1962, p.37).

Listing NGR: SU5018094972

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Legacy System number:
248822
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Sources

Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1962), 37
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 565

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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