Church of St. Peter
Church of St. Peter, Church Lane, Stoke Lyne
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1193248
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Peter
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St. Peter, Church Lane, Stoke Lyne
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1193248
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St. Peter, Church Lane, Stoke Lyne
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. Peter, Church Lane, Stoke Lyne
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stoke Lyne
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 56652 28337
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 April 2023 to correct a name, remove superfluous source details from text and to reformat the text to current standards
SP5628
19/109
STOKE LYNE
CHURCH LANE (west side)
Church of St. Peter
07/12/66
GV
II*
Church. C12 chancel and nave. North aisle early C13. South tower early C14. Major restoration by H. Woodyer in 1868. Squared coursed limestone and coursed limestone rubble. Steeply pitched stone slate roofs laid to diminishing courses and stone coped gables. Chancel, nave, south tower, south porch, north aisle, north vestry.
Five window range. Chancel has a restored triplet of C12 windows and a Geometrical window above. On south side of chancel a C12 priest's doorway flanked by lancets and a C12 window. Nave has two C12 windows on north and a blocked C12 doorway. West end has a four-light restored window with plate tracery and a C12 window. Lancet window to left of porch on south. Tower of two stages has a three-light reticulated window on south and louvred round-arched windows to bell-turret. Diagonal buttresses, string courses and crenellated parapet.Pyramidal roof with lightning conductor. C19 south porch. C12 south doorway has a roll hoodmould with animal headstops and an arch decorated with zig-zag. Above a niche with round arched head and small C12 figure probably of St. Peter. Chancel has a C19 stone corbel table.
Interior; C19 roofs. Late C12 chancel arch with hood mould with nailhead chamfer and two moulded orders carried on responds with scalloped capitals. Chancel rebuilt in 1868 re-using the original window openings, except for the rose window which is new and the three east lancets, copies of the originals. West window of 1868. Brass to Edward Love, d.1557 and wife Alice, d.1535. Chest tomb to William Holt, d.1582 and wife Katherine. Brasses over it. Wall monument to Ralph Holt d.1702. Stained glass given by Lady Peyton in 1873. Medieval font. C19 pews.
Listing NGR: SP5665228337
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243702
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 322-3
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 789
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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