Church of St Martin
CHURCH OF ST MARTIN
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1184161
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1184161
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARTIN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shutford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 38609 40183
Details
SHUTFORD SP 3839 13/112 Church of St. Martin 08/12/55 GV II* Church. Late C12/C13, rebuilt in the C14 and C15 and restored in 1841. Coursed ironstone rubble and regular coursed ironstone rubble. Slate roofs. Stone coped gable to chapel and parapets to chancel and nave. Chancel, nave, north chapel, north aisle and tower standing at the west end of the north aisle. Chancel has a 3-light east window with intersecting tracery, a 2-light lancet with cinquefoil on north and a 2-light Perpendicular window and a lancet on the south. Nave has a 2-light Perpendicular window with hood mould on the south. North aisle has two 3-light windows with intersecting tracery. Parapet has a sundial on south. Gabled stone porch has a stone slate roof and stone coped gable. Pointed arched doorway. Plank door. Narrow Perpendicular tower of 2 stages has a late C12 window in the ground stage and Perpendicular windows to bell-chamber stage. Crenellated parapet with finials. Ashlar diagonal buttresses. C12 north arcade has 2 plain pointed arches and a round pier with a trumpet scalloped capital. A third bay to the east is C13 and opens to the C13 chapel which has a squint to the chancel. Perpendicular chancel screen. Octagonal Romanesque font. C19 bench seats. C19 roofs in chapel and chancel. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p253-4; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: 1974, p766)
Listing NGR: SP3860940183
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244668
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 253-4
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 766
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