Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1286134
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1286134
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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 ALL SAINTS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Nuneham Courtenay
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 54154 98261
Details
NUNEHAM COURTENAY NUNEHAN PARK SU5498 12/84 Church of All Saints 18/07/63 GV II*
Church. 1764 by the 1st Earl Harcourt assisted by James Stuart. Limestone ashlar with a copper-covered dome. Rectangular plan with projections to all sides. Principal (north) front has a projecting hexastyle Ionic portico flanked by Diocletian windows; the heavy dentil cornice to the entablature breaks into a triangular pediment over the portico. Within the portico is a blind doorway between blind arches. The south front is similarly pedimented but the projection is enclosed and has a central arched doorway with fine wrought-iron gates. The east and west projections are lower and semi-circular with half domes, that to the west forming an entrance porch with Ionic columns. The drum of the main dome rises from a rectangular base and has a deep entablature above 4 Diocletian windows. On the east wall is a large memorial to Reverend Dr. Byron Eaton (died 1703) with a bust, on a carved and panelled base, framed by Corinthian columns supporting an open segmental pediment with cherubs and a central cartouche. The monument was saved from the earlier church. Interior: a central rotunda between 2 rectangular spaces, linked by eliptical arches. The rotunda is surrounded by niches and has an arched opening to a small baptistery on the south. The sanctuary has an apsidal recess behind the altar. Walls have moulded plaster panels containing texts. Fittings introduced in 1880 include elaborate stalls in C16 Italian style, with panelled backs divided by Corinthian columns, which line the walls, a matching communion table, and a communion rail with 4 gilt C17 Italian angels. C17/C18 carved wooden lectern. Gadrooned font of 1843 has an Italian Baroque cover with hinged doors. 2 chests with very fine lock mechanisms. Four C19 hatchments. 3 tapestries including C17 Flemish "The Tribes of Israel". Various relics from the funeral of Edward VII. Harcourt monuments include four C19 busts, a full length effigy, a child's effigy and a fine framed marble portrait, plus several C18 and C19 wall tablets. The church was intended as a temple in the Classical landscape formed by the 1st Earl. It is said to echo the entrance front of Chiswick house. The mason was John Hooper and the cost £552 12s 1/4d. The church is now redundant. (Nuneham Park is included in the HBMC County Register of Gardens at Grade I; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.V, p.247; BUildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.725; G. Worsley "Nuneham Park Revisited II", Country Life Vol.177, 1985, p.64).
Listing NGR: SU5415498261
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248319
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1957), 247
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 725
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 177, (1985), 64
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire
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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