Church of St Agatha
CHURCH OF ST AGATHA, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1181581
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Agatha
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST AGATHA, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1181581
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Agatha
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST AGATHA, THE STREET
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 AGATHA, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brightwell-cum-Sotwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 57803 90804
Details
BRIGHTWELL CUM SOTWELL THE STREET SU5790 (South side) Brightwell 5/33 Church of St. Agatha 14/06/63 GV II* Church. C12 nave; early C14 chancel and aisles; tower rebuilt c.1797; nave ceiled c.1815; church restored in 1858 and 1884; organ chamber added c.1903. Coursed limestone rubble to chancel; pebbledash, probably on limestone rubble to aisle and porch; uncoursed limestone rubble to clerestory; grey brick with red brick dressings to tower; Welsh slate roofs. Aisled nave, chancel and west tower. Studded plank door with wrought iron hinges to porch at right of aisle. Porch has stone benches to each side. Two 2-light geometrical tracery windows to aisle. Four 2-light stone mullion windows with trefoil lights and hood moulds to clerestory. Plank door with wrought iron hinges to organ chamber at right of chancel. 2-light geometrical tracery window to chancel. Tower of 3 stages to right with flat brick band between each stage. Round-topped louvred openings having wood Y-tracery to tops and round-arched brick heads with keystones and stone imposts to each side of top stage. Plain parapet to roof of tower. Rear: C19 restored Romanesque doorway with plank door to centre of aisle. Moulded round-arched doorway with capitals to missing columns. 2-light reticulated tracery windows to left and right of aisle. Four 2-light stone mullion windows wih trefoil lights and hood moulds to clerestory. 2-light geometrical tracery to left of chancel. 3-light reticulated tracery window to right return of aisle. C19 3-light plate tracery window to east end of chancel, Interior; stone spiral roof stairs to left of chancel arch. C15 collar braced roof to chancel. C15 lean-to roof to north aisle. C19 lean-to roof to south aisle. Ogee-headed C14 piscina and sedilia to right of chancel. Moulded beam with angle braces to chancel arch. South arcade of three 2-centred arches on round piers. North arcade of three 2-centred arches on octagonal piers. C19 font and pulpit. (V.C.H.: Berkshire, Vol,III, 1923, p.468-70; Buildings of England; Berkshire, 1966, p.102.
Listing NGR: SU5780390804
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249191
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 102
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 468-70
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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