Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1053342
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1053342
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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 ALL SAINTS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Churchill
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 28325 24104
Details
CHURCHILL SP 2824-2924 16/53 Church of All Saints 27.8.57
GV II*
Parish church. 1826 by James Plowman for James Langston. Regularly coursed and dressed limestone rubble; slate roofs with coped verges and embattled parapets. Nave and short chancel with vestries in angle between; west tower closely modelled on that of Magdelen College, Oxford, reduced by athird in size. Tower. In 6 stages with chamfered plinth and moulded string courses and hexagonal angle buttresses. Pierced embattled parapet with Perpendicular tracery patterns and a multitutde of carved grotesque heads to cornice and band of blind quatrefoils below. Crocketed octagonal corner pinnacles and similar square pinnacles to centre of each side with empty statue niches; steeped pilaster buttresses beneath latter to belfry. This has tall 3-light Perpendicular - style of windows with paned tracery, one to each side of pilaster buttress. Stone-louvred 2-light windows also to second stage on south. Richly moulded pointed doorway to second stage on north approached by prominent external staircase and similar but larger doorway to west with clock above. Nave. Buttressed in 5 bays with crocketed pinnacles and blind trefoil-headed panels to each buttress. Stepped chamfered plinth and moulded cornice below parapet. South side has 3-light window with reticulated tracery to west bay; other windows a mixture of late Decorated and Perpendicular panel travery also in 3 lights; similar window of 2 lights to west wall, all windows with hoodmoulds. North side similar except that window with reticulated tracery is in centre bay. Stone cross to east gable. Chancel has moulded eaves cornice terminating in carved angels to east end and stone cross to gable; 4-light Decorated-style east window has hoodmould with head-stops. Flat-roofed vestries in angle with nave, both with single-light Decorated-style windows in east wall and south with Tudor-arched doorway to south wall. Interior: Lierne vault with central foliated boss and carved corbels to tower. Hammer- beam roof in 5 bays based on that of the hall of Christ Church College, Oxford to wide aisleless nave. Painted and panelled roof to chancel with gilding of 1884 by Clayton and Bell. Raised choir with encaustic tiles projects into east bay of nave; 4-centred chancel arch with panelled reveals and soffit. Moulded pointed doorway to vestry on each side of chancel and cinquefoil-headed broad lancet in south wall. Nave benches and choir stalls of 1826 have blind Gothic travery patterns. Octagonal font with panelled sides and pedestal and stone pulpit with Decorated tracery panels. Stone reredos and high altar with paitings to either side depicting the Apostles, the Crucifixion and the Descent from the Cross by Clayton and Bell (1884). Stained glass in east window commemorates James Langston (d.1863) and late C19/early C20 stained glass alternates with clear glass in nave. Sconces to choir stalls and in sanctuary probably 1826. Jacobean chest in north-east corner of nave and drum of 1826 barrel organ in tower. Graded II* on account of tower which forms a prominent land-mark in the locality. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp544-5).
Listing NGR: SP2832524104
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253943
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 544 5
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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