Church of St Laurence
Church of St. Laurence, Thame Road, Warborough, Wallingford, OX10 7HA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1181123
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Laurence
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St. Laurence, Thame Road, Warborough, Wallingford, OX10 7HA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1181123
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Laurence
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St. Laurence, Thame Road, Warborough, Wallingford, OX10 7HA
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. Laurence, Thame Road, Warborough, Wallingford, OX10 7HA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Warborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 59903 93642
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/12/2020
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WARBOROUGH
THAME ROAD (east side)
Church of St. Laurence
(Formerly listed as Church of St. Lawrence)
18/07/63
GV
II*
Church. Early C13, C14 and C15; tower 1666; chancel restored 1881 by Bodley and Garner. Clunch rubble and flint with limestone dressings; old plain-tile roof. Nave, chancel, south transept, west tower and north vestry.
C13 chancel has a C14 east window, with Reticulated tracery, a C15 window of two cinquefoil lights, to north, and a similar window, to south, between a two-light C13 window, with plate tracery, and a C13 doorway, with roll-moulded outer arch and detached shafts with stiff-leaf capitals. South transept has a two-light window with Reticulated tracery. Flint-walled nave has segmental-arched windows with Perpendicular tracery (one C19) and a south doorway with a moulded arch sheltered by a C19 timber-framed open porch. Nave roof has two dormers with elaborate C19 barge boards.
Three-stage crenellated tower has walls of banded flint and stone, with chequered octagonal corner turrets, and has four-centre arched openings with recessed spandrels and labels. West wall has 1666 in flushwork.
Interior: east window has detached jamb shafts, with stiff-leaf capitals, from an earlier window, and there are remains of similar arcading in the south wall. Nave and chancel have seven-canted coupled-rafter roofs, probably C14, and the plastered tympanum, above the C19 chancel screen, is painted on the east with C17 Prince of Wales feathers and the monogram "CP".
Fittings include a small octagonal C17 pulpit and a C17 parish chest. The Romanesque lead font has arcaded sides and stands on a C14 stone base with traceried panels; the strapwork cover is probably C17. Glass includes medieval fragments in the chancel north window, two late-C19 stained-glass windows, and three early C19 windows by A.J. Davies.
Listing NGR: SU5990393642
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248178
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 821 2
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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