Roman Catholic Church of St Gregory and St Augustine
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST GREGORY AND ST AUGUSTINE, 322, WOODSTOCK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230141
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Church of St Gregory and St Augustine
- Statutory Address:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST GREGORY AND ST AUGUSTINE, 322, WOODSTOCK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230141
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Church of St Gregory and St Augustine
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST GREGORY AND ST AUGUSTINE, 322, WOODSTOCK ROAD
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:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST GREGORY AND ST AUGUSTINE, 322, WOODSTOCK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Oxford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 50218 09601
Details
OXFORD SP50NW WOODSTOCK ROAD 612-0/24/10031 (East side) No.322 Roman Catholic Church of St Gregory and St Augustine II Private R.C. chapel. 1910-11, by Ernest Newton for Apsley Paddox, an adjacent house. Rendered brick and Cumberland slate roof with gabled ends. PLAN: Nave with gallery at west end over a narthex entered on the south side. Later in the C20 a large extension, probably parish rooms, was built at the east end. EXTERIOR: East gable-end has 4-light ground floor window and large 6-light gallery window with segmental arch head with tile hoodmould and cill and with diamond shaped brick ventilator and small stone cross on gable. 4-light north and south side windows. All windows have leaded panes. On the west end of the south side porch with splayed ashlar sides corbelled at top and supporting the canopy roof simple boarded double doors with leaded lights. Wooden and lead-clad octagonal cupola on ridge near east end. Later C20 extension at east end. INTERIOR: Remarkably complete with fine simple joinery. Plaster tunnel-vault ceiling with moulded tie-beams and wall plate. Panelled and glazed screen under gallery at west end with tall wooden balustrade above. At east end a baldachino with panels of Spanish leather and carved wooden canopy. Wooden Communion rail and sedilia. SOURCES: Newton, w.g., The work of Ernest Newton [1925]. Gray, A.S., Edwardian Architecture, p.273. Buildings of England, p.332. Service, A., Edwardian Architecture, p.206.
Listing NGR: SP5021809601
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405007
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gray, A S, Edwardian Architecture A Biographical Dictionary, (1985), 273
Service, A, Edwardian Architecture a Handbook to Building Design in Britain 1890-1914, (1977), 206
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 332
Newton, W, The Work of Ernest Newton RA, (1925)
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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