Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, WATER STRATFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192662
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, WATER STRATFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1192662
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, WATER STRATFORD ROAD
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 MICHAEL, WATER STRATFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Finmere
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 63662 33136
Details
FINMERE WATER STRATFORD ROAD SP6333 (East side) 11/13 Church of St. Michael 07/12/66
GV II
Church. C14, restored by G. E. Street in 1856-8. North aisle added at time of Street's restoration and also chancel arch widened. Squared coursed limestone. C20-tile roofs. Chancel, nave, north aisle, vestry, west tower and south porch. 4-window range. Chancel has a 3-light Reticulated east window, C19 lancets on north and 2-light Reticulated window on south. Restored priest's door on south. Nave has a 2-light lancet and 3-light window with intersecting tracery. Two 2-light Perpendicular clerestory windows. Gabled south porch. C19 door. West tower of stages with crenellated parapet. String courses and louvred opening to bell-turret. Stone coped gables. Interior. C19 fixtures and fittings. C19 roofs. C19 three-bay north arcade. C12 tub shaped font. C18 wall memorials to the Turner family; Francis James and Nathaniel Bacon, d.1739 and 1740 respectively; William Chaplin d.1776. C19 glass in west window. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: 1974, pp604-5; VCH: 0xfordshire: Vol VI, p123)
Listing NGR: SP6366233136
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243605
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 123
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 604-605
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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