Churchgate House
CHURCHGATE HOUSE, CHURCH CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283810
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Churchgate House
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCHGATE HOUSE, CHURCH CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283810
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Churchgate House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCHGATE HOUSE, CHURCH CLOSE
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:
- CHURCHGATE HOUSE, CHURCH CLOSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bampton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 31271 03267
Details
SP3003-3103 BAMPTON CHURCH CLOSE (South-west side) 13/70 Churchgate House 12/09/55 (Formerly listed as Church Gate)
GV II Former vicarage, now house. Main front block rebuilt 1799 by Daniel Harris (Pevsner); older rear wing with C16/C17 doorway; refurbished mid C20, with altered side fenestration and small extensions. Coursed rubble limestone with stone slate and C20 tile roof and rubble stone chimneys. 2 storeys. Double pile front block is of 3 bays with hipped stone slate roof. Front has projecting plinth, first floor band course, and 4-pane sashes with wooden lintels. To ground floor left is a fine bow projection of ashlar with 2 moulded stone steps, parapet, and 3 curved full-height sashes, each 3-panes wide. Central 6-panelled door with radiating fanlight in semi-circular arch of dressed stone. 2 moulded stone steps. Lower rear wing has hipped C20 tile roof, and altered fenestration, the south wall retaining a blocked doorway with chamfered 4-centred stone arch. Interior of front block retains contemporary moulded ceiling cornices, panelled doors in architrave frames, and window shutters. Dog-leg stair with stick balusters, possibly in altered position. House served as vicarage for Lew portion of Bampton parish until mid C19 when Lew became a separate parish. Bampton was notable from the middle ages onwards for having 3 vicars at a time, the other vicarages now known as Cobb House and Kilmore House (q.v.). (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: 1974, p432; Reverend J.A. Giles: History of the Parish and Town of Bampton, 1848)
Listing NGR: SP3127203266
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253380
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 432
Giles, JA, History of the Parish and Town of Bampton, (1848)
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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