Old Church
OLD CHURCH, MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198632
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Old Church
- Statutory Address:
- OLD CHURCH, MILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1198632
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Old Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD CHURCH, MILL LANE
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:
- OLD CHURCH, MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Churchill
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 27910 24550
Details
CHURCHILL MILL LANE SP22SE (South-west side) 7/71 Old Church (Formerly listed as Chancel of Old Church and gateway in old Churchyard)
GV II
Parish church, remains of, latterly mortuary chapel now redundant. C13 and C14, demolished except for chancel in 1825; restored 1869 by C.C. Rolfe for Elizabeth Barter in memory of her husband, Charles. Limestone rubble with alternating. angle quoins and chamfered plinth, roughcast to north, south and east sides and regularly coursed and dressed to rebuilt west end. Stone slate roof with coped verges. Chancel only survives of C13/14 church consisting of nave, chancel, north and south aisles with tower at east end of former and south porch. South side. C17 leaded transomed window to left and chamfered cross window to right, both with dripstones; infilled square-headed chamfered doorway directly below right window. Similar cross window to north wall. East end has lancet of 1869 in larger C14 window opening (apparently infilled when lancet inserted), of which part of hoodmould survives. West end, rebuilt in 1825, and again in 1869 has reused C13 pointed doorway (probably the former south doorway) with roll and hollow mouldings, 3 orders of detached nook-shafts with bell capitals and C19 hoodmould set in slight gabled projection of 1869 with C19 cross to apex. Gabled bellcote (1825) with round-headed arch housing single bell. Interior. Trenched double-purlin roof in 3 bays with collar and slightly cambered tie beam trusses. Fittings and furnishings C19 and later; wooden funeral bier. Monuments. Prominent memorial on north wall to Sir John Walter (d.1772): inscription panel with round-arched moulded surround flanked by fluted Ionic pilasters. Several smaller C17 and C18 wall tablets and memorials including brass plate on east wall. Cl7 armorial device fixed to south wall and several C18 grave slabs in floor. A Buckler drawing shows the church soon after the demolition work of 1825. In it the old south porch has been moved to the west end of the chancel and the lower parts of the aisles and tower are still visible. In 1869 the porch was taken down and the inner doorway set in its present gabled projection. Extensive earthworks of the deserted medieval village lie in the fields to south and west. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p545; Joseph Skelton: Antiquities of Oxfordshire (1823), pp52-3; Bodleian Library: Oxfordshire: MS.Top.0xon.a.66 no.170) [2513]
Listing NGR: SP2791024550
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253964
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 545
Skelton, J, Antiquities of Oxfordshire, (1823), 52 3
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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