Church of St Edmund and George
CHURCH OF ST EDMUND AND GEORGE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286396
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Edmund and George
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST EDMUND AND GEORGE, MAIN STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1286396
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Edmund and George
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST EDMUND AND GEORGE, MAIN STREET
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 EDMUND AND GEORGE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hethe
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 59291 29463
Details
HETHE MAIN STREET SP5829-5929 (North side) 17/42 Church of St. Edmund and 07/12/66 George
GV II
Church. Mid C12. restored by G.E. Street in 1859. North aisle added by Street. Squared coursed limestone and limestone rubble. Steeply pitched C20-tile roofs with stone-coped gables. Chancel, nave, north and south aisles, south porch. Chancel has a restored 3-light geometrical east window and a restored 2-light Perpendicular window on south. South has a restored C12 doorway and restored window with round arched head. Set back buttresses. North aisle has a 2-light reticulated window and two C19 lancet windows. Diagonal buttress. Nave clerestory windows on north and south have three 2-light lancets with trefoiled heads and hood moulds. South aisle has 2-light Perpendicular windows with squared heads, the one to right of porch with hood mould and label stop. Pilaster and diagonal buttresses. C19 gabled porch. South doorway with arched head and plank door. West bell-turret by Street has open timber sides and wood shingle roof. Interior. Decorated piscinas in chancel and south aisle. C19 three-bay nave arcade on north and south. C19 roofs and fittings. C12? tub-shaped font. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: 1974, pp645-6; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol VI, pp178-181)
Listing NGR: SP5929129463
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 243635
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1959), 178-181
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 645-6
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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