Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, STANDLAKE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1368277
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, STANDLAKE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1368277
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, STANDLAKE 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, STANDLAKE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hardwick-with-Yelford
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 37356 06244
Details
HARDWICK WITH YELFORD STANDLAKE ROAD SP3706 (West side) Cokethorpe 19/196 Church of St. Mary 12/09/55
GV II*
Church, now school chapel. Late C15, with earlier origins; restored 1874 by E.C. Bruton who rebuilt north chancel wall and added north aisle, south porch and extended chancel. Coursed limestone rubble, except 1874 work of dressed stone; gabled C20 tile roof. Chancel, aisled nave and north-west tower. 3-light plate-tracery east window. 2-bay chancel has offset corner and wall buttresses, reset C15 doorway and late C15 two-light square-headed window to north; and C15 doorway with quatrefoil spandrels and two similar windows, one with restored round-arched lights, to south. 3-bay north aisle has lancets; south wall of nave has C15 offset buttress, 2-light square-headed window with round-arched lights, and C15 hollow-chamfered doorway with ancient studded and ribbed door; late C19 south porch. Hood mould over late C15 three-light west window with round-arched lights. Tower has clasping buttresses and late C15/early C16 round-arched lights, and C13 paired lancets to west; late C19 roughcast bell-stage. Interior: quatrefoil piscina to south, and round-arched recess with medieval credence shelf; C18 communion rail with twisted balusters. Nave has C17 parish chest; late C17 polygonal pulpit with cartouches surrounded by sphinxes, fruit and flowers; and very fine early/mid C12 Norman font with beaded interlacing arcs, plain and twisted pilasters, and rosette and shell medallions. Stained glass: east window by Usher and Kelly, 1874. Church mentioned in charter of 957. On deserted medieval village site. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.633).
Listing NGR: SP3735606244
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252280
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 633
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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