Church of St Thomas
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1183317
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1966
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, HIGH STREET
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- 1999-08-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/01494/02
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1183317
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1966
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, HIGH STREET
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.
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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
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- Legacy System number:
- 250621
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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