Church of St Mary

CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHINNOR ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1285359
Date first listed:
18-Jul-1963
List Entry Name:
Church of St Mary
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHINNOR ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1285359
Date first listed:
18-Jul-1963
List Entry Name:
Church of St Mary
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHINNOR ROAD

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHINNOR ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Crowell
National Grid Reference:
SU 74401 99692

Details

CROWELL CHINNOR ROAD SU7499 (South side) 20/76 Church of St. Mary 18/07/63

GV II

Church. c.1878, incorporating some earlier work. By H.J. Tollit of Oxford and Edwin Dolby of London. Knapped flint with stone dressings; old plain-tile roof; stone bellcote. 3-bay nave, 2-bay chancel, with vestry. Porch to left of nave with 2-centred archway and gabled old plain-tile roof; C13 two-centre arched doorway with hood mould, having C19 plank door. 3-light reticulated tracery window to nave right. 2-light reticulated tracery windows to chancel. Rear: Romanesque round-arched doorway with moulded imposts and hood mould, having plank door, to centre of nave. 3-light reticulated tracery window to right. Catslide roof to vestry to left. 2-light reticulated tracery windows to chancel. East end: 3-light reticulated tracery window. West end. 2-light reticulated tracery window, stone bellcote to gable apex. Interior: wood barrel-vault roof to chancel; arch-braced collar-truss roof to nave. East window c.1870 by Kempe. C19 stone carved reredos. Sedilia formed from lancet tracery. C13 brass reset to left wall of chancel. C19 stone font. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p.560-1; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VIII, 1964, p.89-90).

Listing NGR: SU7440199692

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
249090
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1964), 89-90
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 560-561

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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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