Church of St John the Evangelist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368194
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368194
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Evangelist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
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 JOHN THE EVANGELIST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Tew
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 38446 28546
Details
LITTLE TEW SP3828 11/96 Church of St. John the Evangelist GV II Church. 1853 by G.E Street; north aisle and tower 1869 by Charles Buckeridge. Limestone ashlar; artificial stone-slate roofs. Nave, chancel, 2-bay north aisle, north-west tower, and north-east vestry. Early English and Decorated styles. Chancel has shallow buttresses, a 5-light traceried east window and a 2-light traceried window to south. Nave has groups of cusped lancets and, to west, has 3 lancets below a sexfoiled circle. North aisle has paired lancets, and north gable wall of Street's vestry has a shouldered-arched doorway below a 2-light traceried window with 2 triangular-headed lights below a sexfoiled circle. 3-stage tower contains the main doorway, with 2 pairs of shafts and an outer roll moulding, and has a saddle-back roof with large traceried 3-light bell-chamber openings in the gable ends, lancets in the sides, and a band of quatrefoil openings below. Interior: chancel is defined by the change from an arch-braced collar-truss roof to a 7-canted coupled-rafter roof. North arcade has a quatrefoil pier and composite responds. C19 fittings include brass communion rails and a low chancel screen with wrought-iron cresting. Stained glass in east window (c.1872) and 2 south windows (c,1856 and c.1859). (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.XI, p.257; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.690).
Listing NGR: SP3844628546
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 251908
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 257
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 690
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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