CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1125779
Date first listed:: 21-Jun-1955
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1125779
Date first listed:: 21-Jun-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH

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District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bradenham
National Grid Reference:: SU 82834 97126

Details

BRADENHAM BRADENHAM VILLAGE SU 89 NW

3/69 Church of St. Botolph

21.6.55

GV II*

Parish church. Nave originally c.1100, with C15-early C16 W. tower; N. chapel added 1542 by William, second Lord Windsor; chancel rebuilt 1863-5 by G.E. Street; C19 S. porch. Flint with stone dressings, the N. chapel rendered. W. tower is of 2 stages with diagonal buttresses, moulded parapet, paired lights with 4-centred heads to bell-chamber, and similar single light to S. side. W. side has 3-light Perpendicular window over moulded doorway with depressed arch and Tudor hoodmould. Canted stair projection on N. side. Nave has 2 bays of C14-C15 2-light traceried windows, very much restored. Romanesque S. doorway with inner and outer roll-mouldings, flanking half-columns, blind tympanum, and lintel with diaper and cable ornament. Chancel has traceried windows, one 2-light to S. and 3-light to E. N. chapel has W. door with moulded 4-centred arch, terracotta panel with stag's head, partly blocked entry to crypt, and windows with 4-centred heads, 2 2-light to N., 3-light to E. Interior has wide unmoulded arch to tower and C19 double-chamfered chancel arch. C19 piscina, sedilia and arches to N. chapel. 1742 altar, early C20 communion rails by Canon Vernon Staley, C20 screen and rood. Some C16-C17 heraldic glass in N. chapel, 1887 Jubilee window in tower. Other fittings C19 and C20. Black and white marble monument with caryatids in N. chapel, in memory of Charles West, 1684, attributed to William Kidwell. RCHM I.p.61-62. Records of Bucks XV p.34.

Listing NGR: SU8283497126

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Legacy System number:: 46549
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Records of Buckinghamshire' in Records of Buckinghamshire, , Vol. 15, (1947-52), 32-45
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.