Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, STRATFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1369591
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, STRATFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1369591
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, STRATFORD 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 PETER, STRATFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Cherwell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Drayton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 42837 41564
Details
DRAYTON STRATFORD ROAD SP 4241 (South side) 11/2 Church of St. Peter 08/12/55 GV II* Small church. Mainly C14. Tower rebuilt 1808. Repairs 1822 and 1826. Restoration 1877-8 by Edwin Dolby of Abingdon including building of south vestry. Ironstone ashlar. Chancel has stone slate roof laid to diminishing courses. Nave and tower have slate roofs. Chancel has red ornamental ridge tiles. Crosses on nave and chancel. Aisled nave, chancel and west tower. Mostly Decorated style with Perpendicular clerestory. Chancel. 3-light east window with reticulated tracery. 2 north windows of 2-lights including a paired lancet and another with traceried heads. Similar south window. North aisle has simple stone porch with pointed arched doorway and slate roof. Plank door. North aisle windows include paired lancets, a 3-light window with Intersecting tracery and a 3-light window with Curvilinear tracery. Gabled south porch has a pointed arched doorway and plank door. Renewed slate roof. Re-used Romanesque Priest's door on right has round arched head and plank door. South aisle windows include a 3-light Geometrical east window, two 2-light paired lancets with trefoiled heads, pointed arched hoodmoulds with carved headstops and another similar square headed window. clerestory has three 2-light Perpendicular windows. Parapet. C19 west tower of 3 stages. Hipped slate roof. Early English style lancets, one with dog tooth decoration. Bands to 1st and 2nd stages. East elevation of chancel has two exterior wall memorials to the Jackman family dated 1643, 1662 and 1672. Interior. Piscinas in chancel and south aisle. Decorated 3 seat sedilia in south aisle. C19 roofs to chancel and nave. 3-bay nave arcades, with octagonal piers and moulded capitals, that opposite south door has carving with head and interlaced arms. C19 pulpit with inserted C17 panels. Stone chest tomb in vestry. R. Lodowick Grevil of Drayton, 1441. Several C17 memorials to rectors of the Parish. Arched tomb recess in north aisle. Plain tub-shaped font. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p587; VCH: Oxfordshire, Vol. IX, p110)
Listing NGR: SP4283741564
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244558
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1969), 110
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 587
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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