Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1180738
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1180738
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sydenham
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 72963 01839
Details
SYDENHAM
1706/12/80 Church of St Mary
18-JUL-63
GV II*
Church. C13; restored 1850 by J. Billing of Reading with lengthening of nave, rebuilding of tower arches, replacement of tower, addition of north transept and vestry. Knapped flint with stone dressings; old plain-tile roof;
weatherboarded spire with a shingle roof. Nave and chancel with central tower.
C19 porch with 2-centred archway and doorway; C19 plank door. Lancet windows.
Pyramidal spire to right of centre with 2-light louvred opening to each side.
Rear; lancet windows to all openings. East end: 3-light intersecting tracery
window. West end: paired lancet. Interior: plaster vault to chancel; 2-centred
chancel arch. 2-centre crossing-arch. C15 4-bay hammerbeam nave roof with 2 rows of windbraces. 2-bay hammerbeam roof to transept and vestry; piscina to right of crossing-arch; plain round stone font, proabably C12 and decoration cut off. Set into north and south walls of chancel is the rare survival of wooden pulley wheels and corbels of Lenten Veil.
(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p.810-2; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire,
Vol.VIII, 1964, p.125-6).
Listing NGR: SP7296301839
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249094
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1964), 125-126
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 810-812
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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