Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1368901
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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- Date:
- 2001-07-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/04289/12
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1368901
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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 NICHOLAS
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 74230 02370
Details
CHINNOR EMMINGTON SP7402 9/38 Church of St. Nicholas 18/07/63
GV II*
Church. C14 tower; chancel and nave partly rebuilt c.1874 by Charles Buckeridge and J.L. Pearson. Squared stone plinth; coursed stone rubble; old plain-tile roofs. 4-bay nave, 2-bay chancel, and west tower. 2-centre arched doorway to centre of nave with moulded arch and hood mould; C19 plank door. Paired lancets with flat heads to left and right. 2-light Y-tracery windows to chancel. East end: Y-tracery window. Rear: 2-centre arched doorway to centre of nave with moulded arch and hood mould; C19 plank door. Paired lancets with flat heads to left and right. 2-light Y-tracery windows to chancel. Tower has angle buttresses and louvred lancet opening with flat head to each side, saddleback roof. Interior: braced collar truss roof to chancel; C19 kingpost roof to nave; C19 carved wood reredos, stone piscina and sedilia, and encaustic tile floor to chancel. C14 two-centred chancel arch on half-octagonal columns. Piscina to right. C19 pulpit to left. C14 round stone font on shaped plinth. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p.592).
Listing NGR: SP7423002370
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249052
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 592
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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