Church of St Mary

CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1059577
Date first listed:
09-Feb-1959
List Entry Name:
Church of St Mary
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1059577
Date first listed:
09-Feb-1959
List Entry Name:
Church of St Mary
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Crowmarsh
National Grid Reference:
SU 60897 86210

Details

CROWMARSH CHURCH LANE SU68NW (South side) North Stoke 2/11 Church of St. Mary 09/02/59

GV I

Church. C13, C14, C15 porch, early C18 top to tower. Flint with stone dressings; red brick dressing to top of tower; plain tile roof. Nave, chancel and west tower. Porch to right of centre: brick base; 2-centre wooden arch to front; original studded door to church in stone 2-centred archway with damaged hood mould and damaged carved end stops. Three 2-light Y-tracery windows to nave. 3 pointed lancets to chancel. Single trefoil topped lancet to chancel. 2-centred arched doorway to chancel with moulded hood. Tower to right; pointed lancer with hood mould with end stops to first stage. C18 round-headed openings with brick dressings to second stage. C18 round-headed louvred opening with brick dressings to third stage. Shaped brick cornice; shaped parapet to roof with stone ball finials to corners. Rear: Blocked 2-centre arched doorway to left of centre with hood mould. Three 2-light Y-tracery windows to nave. 3 pointed lancets and rectangular window to chancel. Carved head and hands holding stone sun dial above blocked door. Left return: 3-light probably C19 plate tracery window. Interior: C13 pisinca and aumbry to chancel. Romanesque round font on hexagonal pillar on round base. Probably C14 wall paintings to nave. Transitional chancel arch. Jacobean wooden pulpit with sounding board. Jacobean choir stalls with linenfold panels to front. Queen post roof to nave with windbraces. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.723-4).

Listing NGR: SU6089586210

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Legacy System number:
247229
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 723-4

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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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