Church of St Nicholas and St Swithin
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS AND ST SWITHIN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1198970
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas and St Swithin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS AND ST SWITHIN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1198970
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas and St Swithin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS AND ST SWITHIN
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 NICHOLAS AND ST SWITHIN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hardwick-with-Yelford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 35876 04709
Details
HARDWICK WITH YELFORD YELFORD SP30SE 10/206 Church of St. Nicholas and St. 12/09/55 Swithin
GV II*
Church. c.1500. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings; roughcast nave walls; stone-coped gabled stone slate roof. Chancel and nave with porch. Label mould over late C15 two-light hollow-chamfered round-headed east window; two similar windows to south and a similar one-light window to north. Nave has 2 tiny rood lights in east gable; similar one-light window to north and 2-light window to south. Gabled south porch: moulded bargeboard; east wall has reset C11/early C12 carving with beaded arcs; label mould over hollow-chamfered round-arched doorway; C15 studded door with fittings set in 4-centred moulded doorway. West end has similar late C15 two-light window and two paired C13 lancets; late C19 bellcote. Interior: 2 pedestals for statues and square recess with piscina; late C15 chancel screen with traceried heads to open panels; late C15 octagonal font with blank shields and early C18 cover. Late C15 three-bay tie-beam roof to nave has moulded and quartered beams and hollow-chamfered joists; similar beams to porch roof. A small parish church adjoining a moat and set in the grounds of Yelford Manor (q.v.). (National Monuments Record; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.869).
Listing NGR: SP3587604709
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252290
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 869
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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