Church of St Thomas
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183317
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183317
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, HIGH 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 THOMAS, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Watchfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 24565 90273
Details
1. WATCHFIELD HIGH STREET Church of St Thomas SU 29 SW 1/70 21.11.66.
II GV
2. 1857-8 by G E Street in a plain Gothic style. Rubble stone with dressed stone buttresses, copings and openings and gabled stone tiled roof. 3 bay nave, 1 bay chancel, N aisle, W bellcote. 2 light simple cusped pointed windows on N side of nave, 2 windows of 3 stepped cusped lights under pointed arches on the S side. Chancel windows of 2 lights with cusped 'y' tracery. The roadside W front has an elaborate interplay of buttressing which includes a central buttress that changes in direction 6 times before it reaches the bellcote. W porch to the left hand with a chamfered arch dying into its imposts. Plain doorway arch and plank door with thin ironwork. In an otherwise plain interior the N aisle has deeply undercut capitals of almost perpendicular style and deeply splayed windows with eyebrow dripstones. Open rafter roof with scissor beams and simple cusping, Transitional style font with nebule enrichment, fine cothick candelabra and an 1860 stained glass E window.
Listing NGR: SU2456590273
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 250621
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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