Church of St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PAUL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391558
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391558
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL
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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 PAUL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Highmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 70050 84291
Details
HIGHMOOR
1209/0/10025 HIGHMOOR CROSS 06-APR-06 St Paul's Church
II Parish church, built as chapel of ease 1859. Designed by Joseph Morris of Reading; built by Robert Owthwaite of Henley-on-Thames. Nave, chancel, single-storey vestry to south.
MATERIALS: Knapped flint with ashlar detailing (banding, quoins, windows, doorways), red tile roof
EXTERIOR: Nave with bellcote to west end. Trefoil cusp-headed two-light windows and buttresses to sides; three-light window to west end with centrally placed porch with generous doorway. Lower chancel with single-light side and east windows. Lower still single-storey vestry to south of chancel with tall stone chimney on south gable. Rainwater goods dated 1859.
INTERIOR: Internally little altered with benches, font, pulpit, organ (occupying much of south wall of chancel). Stained glass in the east window by Bentley.
The churchyard wall, of flint with brick detailed and red tile coping, is likely to be broadly contemporary with the church. It appears on a photo of 1865 (Harper-Spencer 1999, 61).
HISTORY: The church was apparently paid for (along with the adjoining unlisted parsonage) by the Revd. Joseph Smith, the rector of Rotherfield Peppard, as a chapel of ease. Highmoor was made a separate parish in 1860.
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: St. Paul's is a simple but pleasing mid Victorian church, little if at all altered. It is by a local architect and makes a positive contribution to Highmoor, notably through the predominant use of flint which is a distinctive local building material. The church represents the High Victorian desire to improve the provision of places of worship in rural areas such as this.
SOURCES: N. Pevsner, Oxfordshire (1974), 649; A. Harper-Spencer, Dipping into the Wells (1999)
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 495031
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harper-Spencer, A, Dipping into the Wells, (1999)
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974)
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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