Pishill Church
PISHILL CHURCH, CHURCH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194362
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Pishill Church
- Statutory Address:
- PISHILL CHURCH, CHURCH HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194362
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Pishill Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- PISHILL CHURCH, CHURCH HILL
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:
- PISHILL CHURCH, CHURCH HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pishill with Stonor
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 72636 89849
Details
PISHILL WITH STONOR CHURCH HILL SU78NW (West side) Pishill 5/41 Pishill Church
- II
Church. Norman and late C13, rebuilt 1854 for Rev. C. E. Rucke-Keene. Coursed flint rubble with limestone ashlar quoins and dressings; gabled old tile roof. Chancel, nave and north transept. Gothic Revival style. East window of 3 stepped lancets: south wall of chancel has one- and 2-light lancets. South wall of nave has gabled porch with lancets and pointed doorway to double-leaf plank doors: pointed south doorway to south door. Porch flanked by lancet and 3-light ogee-headed window. Lean-to north vestry has 2-light lancet and shoulder-headed doorway to ribbed door. North transept has one- and 2-light trefoil-headed windows and C13 trefoil-headed north-west window. Louvred bellcote over 2 lancets in west gable. Interior: fine tile reredos, 1873 by Powell and Sons. Mid C19 chancel roof, pulpit, lectern, benches and organ. C14 octagonal font with mid C19 cover. Nave has wall brass to Rev. C.E. Rucke-Keene, d.1880, and north transept (Stonor Aisle) has floor tablets to Simon Doe, d.1659, and one dated 176. North transept roof retains C16 arch-braced collar-truss. Stained glass: fine chancel windows of 1871, south-west window of 1967 by John Piper, window east of porch by Cox and Son. (Buildings of England: Berkshire, pp.731-2; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VIII, p.137).
Listing NGR: SU7263689849
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247513
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1954), 137
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 731-2
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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