Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1284661
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1284661
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH 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 MARY, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wheatley
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 59696 05790
Details
In the entry for;
SP 5905 WHEATLEY CHURCH ROAD (north side)
7/193 Church of St Mary 18.7.63 GV II
the grade shall be amended to read; II* (star)
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WHEATLEY CHURCH ROAD SP5905 (North side) 7/193 Church of St. Mary 18/07/63
GV II
Church. 1855-7 by G.E. Street. Coursed squared limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; plain-tile roof. 3-bay aisled nave, chancel with 2-bay north aisle, west tower and south porch. C13 style. Chancel and aisles have grouped lancets separated by buttresses with cusped circular windows over the lancets at the ends of the south aisle. South porch, built 1887, has an outer arch in Decorated style. West tower, completed by Street in 1868, has a broach spire with tall 2-light belfry openings in the gables and lucarnes on the angles. West doorway of 3 chamfered orders below a 3-light window with plate tracery. Interior: Very plain with arch-braced collar-truss roofs, except chancel which has a wagon roof and carved capitals to aisle and east window. Stained glass of 1875 in east widow. C19 fittings. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.V, p,115; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp.837-8).
Listing NGR: SP5969605790
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 246960
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1957), 115
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 837-8
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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