Church of the Holy Ascension
CHURCH OF THE HOLY ASCENSION
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388326
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Ascension
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY ASCENSION
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388326
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Ascension
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY ASCENSION
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 THE HOLY ASCENSION
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Oddington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 22967 25905
Details
SP 2225 ODDINGTON LOWER ODDINGTON
1817/10/10002 Church of the Holy
Ascension
GV II
Anglican church. 1852; by S. W .Daukes. Limestone rubble with freestone dressings. Clay plain tile roofs with stone coped gable ends.
PLAN: Nave, chancel, north aisle, vestry in angle of north aisle and chancel, and large 2-storey north porch.
Early English style.
EXTERIOR: 2-light plate-tracery windows and lancets, continuous stringcourse at cill level, buttresses with weathered set-offs; triple lancet east window; gabled stone bellcote with weathervane over east end of nave; large 2-storey north porch with wooden bellcote said to have been designed by the incumbent the Revd W. Wiggin. j.L. Pearson is believed to have been involved in designing the east end of the north aisle.
INTERIOR: Plastered walls. 4-bay north arcade and chancel arch with dog-tooth ornament in the arch mouldings and capitals. Arch-braced nave, aisle and chancel roofs, chancel roof panelled and painted. Furnishings complete, including benches, reading desk and lectern, stone font and pulpit, organ, and encaustic tiles in chancel. Windows with stained glass by Wailes, Clayton and Bell, and Powell.
(Source: David Verey, Buildings of England, Gloucestershire: Cotswolds, p.350.}
Listing NGR: SP2296725905
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476334
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970), 350
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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