Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1200134
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1200134
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET
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 MARY, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Upton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 51489 87002
Details
UPTON CHURCH STREET
SU58NW (East side)
4/168 Church of Saint Mary
24/11/66
- II*
Church. Probably C12; restored 1885, including flint facing; early C20 porch and
vestry. Coursed squared knapped flint to nave with stone quoins; unknapped flint
to chancel; old plain-tile roof to nave; C19 plain-tile roof to chancel; C19
wood bell-cote with wood-shingle pyramidal roof to left. 4 and a half-bay nave
with chancel plan. Plank door to centre of nave with Romanesque round-arched
doorway having zig-zag moulding. C20 timer-framed gabled porch. Lancet to left.
C19 three-light stone mullion window to right with ogee-shaped heads to lights.
Trefoil-topped paired lancet to left of chancel. Romanesque lancet to right of
chancel. C19 three-lancet window to east end of chancel. Rear: lancets to
chancel and nave. Lean-to vestry to right. Interior: C19 braced collar-truss
roof to channel. C19 altar rail, choir stalls, and encaustic tiles to floor.
Romanesque round chancel arch with dog-tooth moulding to imposts. Nave: C15
queen-strut roof with 2 rows of wind braces; Romanesque round stone font on C19
base. Round-arched doorway to vestry.
(Buildings of England: Berkshire: 1975, p247; St. Mary's Church, Upton by M.
Chitty, 1984)
Listing NGR: SU5148987002
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 250031
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Chitty, M, St Mary's Church Upton, (1984)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 247
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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