Church of St Nicholas

CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1059466
Date first listed:
11-Dec-1985
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1059466
Date first listed:
11-Dec-1985
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS

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:
Britwell Salome
National Grid Reference:
SU 67440 93679

Details

BRITWELL SU6793 8/9 Church of St. Nicholas

GV II

Church. Early C12; rebuilt 1867 by Charles Buckeridge. Flint rubble, limestone ashlar dressings; gabled old tile roof. Chancel, vestry, nave and west bellcote. Late C13 style 3-light east window. South chancel wall has trefoil-headed lights flanking Norman doorway: billeted round arch of 2 orders with scalloped capitals to engaged shafts. Lean-to north vestry has Early English lancet. Nave has 2-light ogee-headed windows: south gabled porch with pointed moulded doorway to pointed chamfered south doorway with plank door. Interior: chancel has C18 and C19 wall tablets and brass to John Mores, d.1492. Nave has mid C19 wood pulpit on stone base, lectern and pews; C13 cup-shaped font with fine early C17 ogee-shaped cover. Mid C19 roof. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.486; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VIII, p.50).

Listing NGR: SU6744093679

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
247480
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1954), 50
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 486

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