CHURCH OF ST GILES

CHURCH OF ST GILES, A329

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1193229
Date first listed:: 18-Jul-1963
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST GILES
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST GILES, A329

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1193229
Date first listed:: 18-Jul-1963
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST GILES
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST GILES, A329

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST GILES, A329

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Newington
National Grid Reference:: SU 60878 96527

Details

NEWINGTON A329 5U6096 (West side) 15/38 Church of St. Giles 18/07/63

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Church. C12, c.1200, C13 and C14. Limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; old plain-tile roof. Nave, chancel, north transept, west tower and spire, and south porch. The 2-bay chancel retains, to north, a lancet of c.1200 and a small arched doorway, but the south wall is early C14 and has two 2-light windows with geometrical tracery. The 3-light east window is late C14 early-Perpendicular style and there is a square-headed 2-light C15 window inserted in the north wall. The south wall of the C12 nave has, to east, a rebuilt section across the former transept containing a plain 3-light C17 stone-mullioned window. Traces of former crossing piers remain. Further west is a 2-light Decorated window. The C12 south door, under a deep hood mould with lozenge decoration and containing an old plank door with the remains of crescent hinges, is sheltered by a C19 timber-framed porch. To west of it are a square-headed C15 window set in a C12 opening (visible internally) and a matching C19 window. The north wall of the nave is blind except for a late C12 doorway with an old plank door and a moulded outer arch supported on detached shafts with flat-leaf capitals. The western angles of the nave retain C12 roll mouldings. The late C13 north transept has a cusped lancet and a small 2-light window with cusped Y-tracery. The late C13 3-stage tower has a cusped lancet, to west, 2-light belfry openings with plain Y-tracery and a rendered octagonal broach spire rising from within a plain parapet. To west are 2 massive C15 buttresses. Interior: the chancel has, to south, a C15 piscina and a richly-moulded arched tomb recess of c,1300 with pierced cusping. The 7-centred coupled-rafter roof is probably C14. The black and white marble floor may be C17. The C14 chancel arch contains a simple C15 screen. The canted roofs of nave and transept are covered with C19 boarded panelling. The transept arch of c.1200, of 2 unchamfered orders, seems to represent an ambitious scheme to provide for nave aisles. Beyond the late C13 tower arch is an ancient stair with solid triangular treads. C12 tub front; plain C17 panelled pulpit. Fine early C15 glass in north window of chancel, including 2 donor figures, and fragments in 2 other windows. Memorials include an elaborate wall monument of 1650 to Walter Dunch containing 2 shrouded wreathed marble half figures framed by black marble Tuscan columns supporting a broken segmental pediment containing an armorial cartouche. A standing white-marble monument to Sir Henry Dunch (died 1686) is topped by a large urn. There are also many C18 wall tablets to the White family, and many C17 and C18 ledgers. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp.715-6).

Listing NGR: SU6087996528

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Sources

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Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 715-6

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.