Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1368881
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1368881
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH 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 ANDREW, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chinnor
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 75679 00889
Details
CHINNOR CHURCH ROAD SP7500 (South side) 15/36 Church of St. Andrew 18/07/63
GV I
Church. Early C13 nave; late C13 aisles and tower; early C14 chancel, extension of aisles, porch and windows; restored c.1858 by E. Banks of Wolverhampton, under supervision of G.E. Street and J.H. Parker. Knapped flint, with areas of brick and stone, with stone dressings; old plain-tile roof to nave and chancel; lead roof to aisles and tower. 6-bay nave, west tower, 7-bay north and south aisles, 5-bay chancel, Porch to left of centre of south aisle: moulded stone 2-centre arched archway with hood mould: moulded stone parapet: quadripartite vault on corner-shafts, with moulded ribs and carved centre boss; stone niches to sides; 2-centre arched doorway of 3 orders on columns, with hood mould, with plank door. 2-light reticulated tracery window with hood moulds to all openings except paired lancets with flat heads to clerestory, and 3-light reticulated tracery windows to east ends of aisles and chancel. 2-centre arched doorway with blank door to first stage of west face of tower. Triple lancet with hood mould to second stage of tower. 2-light reticulated tracery louvred openings to third stage; corbelled eaves and saddleback roof. Interior: mid C19 king-post roof with cusped principals to chancel, mid C19 arch-braced collar-truss roof with bosses to nave, lean-to roofs to aisles. Chancel: early C20 wood panelling to reredos with C18 painting of the Entombment. Early C14 piscina and sedilia with ogee arches to right. East window by Clayton and Bell c.1865. C14 stained glass windows to left and right, of figures in canopied surrounds. Collection of C14 and C15 brasses re-set on walls above choirstalls. C14 wood chancel screen with quatrefoil tracery to top, having double-doors to centre. 2-centred chancel arch on cluster columns. Nave: 5-bay arcades of 2-centred arches on round columns to aisles. C19 octagonal font. 2-centred arch to tower. North aisle: piscina to right; C14 octagonal stone font, with octagonal stone plinth, with area of medieval tiles to surround. South aisle: piscina and cusped tomb recess to right; re-set C13 stone recumbent figure of knight lying in prayer. Church has collection of paintings reputed to be by Sir James Thornhill. (Buildings of England: Dxfordshire, 1974, p.534-6; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VIII, 1964, p.76-78).
Listing NGR: SP7567800889
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249050
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1964), 76-78
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 534-536
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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