Church Of St Edmund And George

HETHE MAIN STREET SP5829-5929 (North side) 17/42 Church of St. Edmund and 07/12/66 George

GV II

Church. Mid C12. restored by G.E. Street in 1859. North aisle added by Street. Squared coursed limestone and limestone rubble. Steeply pitched C20-tile roofs with stone-coped gables. Chancel, nave, north and south aisles, south porch. Chancel has a restored 3-light geometrical east window and a restored 2-light Perpendicular window on south. South has a restored C12 doorway and restored window with round arched head. Set back buttresses. North aisle has a 2-light reticulated window and two C19 lancet windows. Diagonal buttress. Nave clerestory windows on north and south have three 2-light lancets with trefoiled heads and hood moulds. South aisle has 2-light Perpendicular windows with squared heads, the one to right of porch with hood mould and label stop. Pilaster and diagonal buttresses. C19 gabled porch. South doorway with arched head and plank door. West bell-turret by Street has open timber sides and wood shingle roof. Interior. Decorated piscinas in chancel and south aisle. C19 three-bay nave arcade on north and south. C19 roofs and fittings. C12? tub-shaped font. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: 1974, pp645-6; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol VI, pp178-181)

Listing NGR: SP5929129463