Church of the Holy Ascension
CHURCH OF THE HOLY ASCENSION
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283126
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Ascension
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY ASCENSION
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283126
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Ascension
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY ASCENSION
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 THE HOLY ASCENSION
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:
- Littleworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 31248 97152
Details
LITTLEWORTH LITTLEWORTH SU 3197
2/3 Church of the Holy Ascension 21.11.66
- II
Church 1839 by H J Underwood of Oxford with chancel 1876. Rubble stone with ashlar dressings. Lancet Gothic. 3-bay nave, broad, aisleless with low pitched stone tiled roof. Side buttresses and diagonal angle buttresses with string course at level of top set-off and window heads. Dentil eaves course. More elaborate west front with bellcote and 2-light west window with quatrefoil light over, all ashlar with hoodmould stepped up from string course. Gabled porch with shafted moulded arch and carved foliage capitals. 2-bay chancel, crazed rubble. Cusped lancets and 3 lancets to east end. Projecting plinth. Priest's door with ornate ironwork. Interior: Thin false hammerbeam nave roof, arched braced collar truss with crown posts to chancel. East window with-moulded rear arches and triple shafts between lights. In nave 4 panels of sacred texts painted on metal in a C15 illuminated manuscript style. Church founded by the Tractarian, E B Pusey.
Listing NGR: SU3124897152
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249488
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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