Henley Cemetery Church of England Chapel
HENLEY CEMETERY CHURCH OF ENGLAND CHAPEL, A423
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268398
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Henley Cemetery Church of England Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- HENLEY CEMETERY CHURCH OF ENGLAND CHAPEL, A423
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268398
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Henley Cemetery Church of England Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- HENLEY CEMETERY CHURCH OF ENGLAND CHAPEL, A423
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:
- HENLEY CEMETERY CHURCH OF ENGLAND CHAPEL, A423
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bix and Assendon
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 74349 84472
Details
SU 78 SW BIX AND ASSENDON A423, Lower Assendon (South side) 1209-0/6/10015 Henley Cemetery Church of 12.07.96 England Chapel
GV II
Cemetery chapel, Anglican. 1868. Knapped flint with freestone dressings. Clay tile roofs with bands of shaped tiles, crested ridge-tiles and stone coping to the gable ends with finials and corbelled kneelers. PLAN: Nave and short chancel; porch on liturgical 'south' [north] of nave with integral bell-tower in the angle to its side. Victorian Gothic style with Decorated window tracery. EXTERIOR: Steeply-pitched roofs, integral corner buttresses with set-offs and small lancets on north and south sides with cusped arches. 2-light east window and large 3-light west window with Decorated tracery and stained glass. Gabled porch on north side with pointed arch and inner door with ornate wrought-iron strap hinges; integral bell-tower to left with broaches to polygonal stone belfry with squat spire; the belfry and spire have been rebuilt. North doorway with pointed arch and plank doors with strap hinges, flanked by two new brick buttresses. Stone string at window cill level around the chapel. INTERIOR: Double-chamfered chancel arch without capitals to the responds. Scissor-braced roof. Benches, lectern, altar rail and stained glass windows. SOURCE: Buildings of England, page 638.
Listing NGR: SU7434984472
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461863
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 638
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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