Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, THAME ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1233014
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, THAME ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1233014
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, THAME 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:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, THAME ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Piddington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 63999 16980
Details
SP61NW PIDDINGTON THAME ROAD (West side)
11/136 Church of St. Nicholas
07/12/66
GV II*
Church. Late C13, C15 and C16; restored 1855 and by J.O. Scott in 1898. Random and coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; old plain-tile and Welsh-slate roofs. Chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and west tower. C13 chancel, with plinth and stepped angle buttresses, has an east window of 3 grouped trefoiled lancets below an outer arch, and, to south, has 2 similar 2-light windows with trefoils in their heads; all have engaged shafts supporting tracery rolls; to north is a similar lancet plus a 2-light C15 window, and there is a C14 priest's door to south. South aisle has 2 plain lancets, possibly re-used, plus a C14 window of 2 ogee-headed lights; a similar window facing west may be C19. C19 porch, with square traceried openings, shelters a C14 doorway with continuous moulding. North wall of nave has heavy buttresses, 2 square-headed windows (one with Perpendicular tracery) and a single light contemporary with the tower. 2-stage C16 tower, with diagonal buttresses and crenellated parapet, has single-light bell-chamber openings and 2-light west window, all with 3-centred arches, and has a 4-centre arched west doorway with shields in the spandrels. Interior: chancel windows have internal shafts and trefoiled rere arches, to east with the cusps pierced with trefoils. The C14 two-seat sedilia is sumptuously carved with foliage and ballflower ornament and has cinqufoiled arches, tall canopies and pinnacles; matching canopies to the piscina and the altered priest's door have been mutilated. An Easter sepulchre to north is carved with winged cherubs. C19 chancel arch. 4-bay C14 south arcade has octagonal piers with moulded capitals. Medieval octagonal chalice-shaped font. C18 turned communion rails. Monuments include 3 early-C18 Baroque wall tablets, 2 carved with weeping figures, to members of the Walker family. Fragmentary painting of St. Christopher on north wall of nave. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.V, p.257; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.731).
Listing NGR: SP6399916980
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408435
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1957), 257
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 731
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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