Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1226006
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1226006
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH WALK
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 WALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Upper Heyford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 49483 25866
Details
UPPER HEYFORD CHURCH WALK SP42NE (West side) 2/137 Church of St. Mary 07/12/66 GV II*
Church. C15, and 1867 by Talbot Bury incorporating C14 and C15 elements. Rubble and coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings; Welsh-slate, sheet-metal, and concrete plain-tile roofs. Chancel, nave, north aisle, north and south vestries, west tower and south porch. Rebuilt chancel incorporates a fine 3-light east window with Perpendicular drop tracery below a 4-centred arch, and has a square-headed 2-light window to north; matching window to south plus remainder of chancel and vestries is C19. Nave has, to south, two 3-light Perpendicular-style windows below pairs of quatrefoil clerestory windows, and has 2 small windows above the south porch. North aisle has traceried windows with pointed-segmental arches. North clerestory has 3 pairs of quatrefoil windows, and the nave parapet is a frieze of blind quatrefoils. C15 rubble tower, with diagonal buttresses and moulded plinth and strings, has a moulded Tudor-arched west doorway below a 3-light Perpendicular window, and has arched 2-light bell-chamber openings with Perpendicular tracery, below a crenellated parapet which formerly had corner pinnacles; buttresses carry the arms of New College Oxford and its Warden at the time of building (c.1465). Interior: Chancel incorporates a C14 piscina with a cusped head, a C14 recess containing the effigy of a priest, and a cartouche of arms, now forming the base of a missal stand. Wide 4-centred arch to south vestry; coupled-rafter roof with arched bracing. Responds of chancel arch, and east respond and first capital of 3-bay nave arcade, have vigorously-carved capitals with naturalistic grapes, corn, and other vegetation; remaining capitals are moulded but remain uncarved. C15 tower arch has inner shafts with octagonal capitals plus a wide casement moulding. Perpendicular-style nave roof. Fittings include an Art Noveau wrought-iron screen of c.1900, brought from Bicester Church. Numerous late-C17 and early-C18 ledgers, mostly to members of the Myrry family. C19 stained glass in east window. (VCH Oxfordshire, Vol VI, p204; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p820)
Listing NGR: SP4948325866
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 423070
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1962), 820
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974)
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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