Church of St Catherine
CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181108
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Catherine
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181108
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Catherine
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE, CHURCH LANE
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 CATHERINE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Towersey
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 73570 05265
Details
TOWERSEY CHURCH LANE SP7305 (East side) 8/119 Church of St. Catherine 18/07/63
GV II
Church. Early C13 chancel; mid C14 nave, tower and restoration of c.1850 by J. Cranston. Coursed squared stone; C19 plain-tile roof; roof to tower not visible. 4-bay nave, 2-bay chancel, transept recess to north, south tower. 2-centre moulded stone archway to base of tower. 2-centre arched doorway with hood mould and C19 plank door. 2-light Y-tracery windows with hood moulds to left and right. Rear: 2-centre arched doorway with plank door to centre of nave. 2-light Y-tracery windows to left and right. 3-light panel-tracery window to transept. Lancet to chancel. 2-light reticulated-tracery windows to east end of chancel and nave. 3-light intersecting-tracery window to west end. Tower of 3 stages. Clock face to each side of second stage. 2-light Y-tracery louvred openings to third stage; battlemented parapet with banded obelisk finials to corners. Interior: C14 two-bay arch-braced collar-truss roof with windbraces to chancel. Piscina to right of projecting bowl on a half-column. Segmental pointed chancel arch. C19 braced collar truss roof to nave. Mid C17 hexagonal wood pulpit with carved panels. C14 round stone font. Some C17 fleur-de-lys bench ends. History: the clock in the tower was presented in 1877 from Thame Town Hall, where it had been installed c.1777, having been originally at Rycote Chapel from 1577-1777. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p.819; V.C.H.: Buckinghamshire, Vol.IV, 1927, p.l06-7).
Listing NGR: SP7357005265
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249133
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Buckingham, (1927), 106-107
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 819
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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