Church of St Mary Magdalene
CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, BARROW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368610
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, BARROW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1368610
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, BARROW 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 MAGDALENE, BARROW ROAD
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:
- SU 48077 98016
Details
ST.HELEN WITHOUT BARROW ROAD SU49NE (South side) Shippon 8/128 Church of St. Mary Magdalene 09/02/66 GV II Church. 1855, by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Coursed and dressed limestone; gabled stone-coped old tile roof. Nave with north porch and chancel with vestry. Gothic Revival in late geometrical style. 3-light east window flanked by offset buttresses. 2-bay chancel and 4-bay nave have hood moulds with head-stops over mainly 2-light windows: priest's door to centre of south chancel wall, and plain door to vestry. Timber-framed north porch: moulded pointed doorway frames mid C19 double-leaf doors. East gable of nave surmounted by belfry: French-Gothic-style crocketed spire with trefoiled lights and spandrels. Interior: encaustic tile floor to sanctuary. Gothic style communion rail and pews with carved bench ends. Chancel arch has ballflower-carved corbels. Plain stone pulpit, and octagonal stone font inscribed "suffer little children to come unto me". Waggon roof to chancel : 4-bay nave roof with curved principals and steeply-cambered collars giving cruck effect. Stained glass: mid C19 east window, and stained glass in heads of 3 windows. C20 memorial windows. (Buildings of England: Berkshire, p.216).
Listing NGR: SU4807798016
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249805
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 216
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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