Church of St Helen
CHURCH OF ST HELEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368572
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Helen
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST HELEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368572
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Helen
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST HELEN
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 HELEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Helen Without
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 46752 00403
Details
ST.HELEN WITHOUT DRY SANDFORD SP4600 16/132 Church of St. Helen GV II Church. 1855, by J.B. Clacy. Coursed and dressed limestone (highly ferruginous and ruddy coloured) with buff-coloured ashlar dressings. Stone-coped gables to stone slate roof. Chancel with north vestry, and nave with north chapel. Early English style. Apsidal east end has hood moulds over 5 trefoil-headed lancets: 2-bay chancel has similar lancets and moulded trefoil-arched south door: vestry, which has 2-light window, pointed-arched door and 2-light geometrical-style gable-end window, adjoins short stair turret with broached pyramidal cap. Bellcote at east end of nave. 5-bay nave has plain lancets (paired in east bay) divided by offset buttresses: south porch has pointed moulded doors, with engaged shafts on outer door, and 3-light trefoil-headed side windows. 3-light stepped lancet west window. All windows have hood moulds with ballflower stops. Interior: vault in apsidal sanctuary has groins continued as shafts with ballflower capitals. Double-chamfered sanctuary arch has similar engaged shafts with ballflower capitals. Chancel: hood moulds over rere-arches with bell capitals to engaged shafts. Poppyhead bench ends. Oak screen to vestry has trefoil-headed arches divided by ringed shafts with bell capitals and trefoiled spandrels. Steps from vestry through trefoil-arched door to pulpit facing nave: stone canopy above square C13-style richly-carved pulpit with marble corner shafts. Reader's desk has circular rail of C13-style trefoil-headed arches. Roof has enamelled text plates. (Buildings of England: Berkshire, p.130).
Listing NGR: SP4675200403
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249809
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 130
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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