Chapel Of Ease Of St John The Evangelist

SP43SW DEDDINGTON B4031 (North side) Hempton 2/137 Chapel of Ease of St. John 08/12/55 the Evangelist

GV II Chapel of ease. 1850 by Reverend William Wilson, Vicar of Banbury for Reverend William Wilson (senior) of Over Morton House. Coursed squared marlstone with ashlar dressings; plain-tile roofs. Combined nave and chancel, south porch, and schoolroom on north side. Early-English style. 3-bay nave/chancel has chamfered lancets with hood moulds, some in pairs, and the east window is a triplet of graduated lancets; west gable wall has a pair of tall lancets flanking a wide stepped buttress which rises to support a gabled bellcote. South porch has a continuously-moulded arch and a gable parapet with apex cross and moulded projecting kneelers. Schoolroom, in place of a north aisle, has similar lancets and a shouldered doorway. Parallel steep-pitched roofs rise from ashlar eaves coves. Interior: continuously-moulded 2-bay arcade leading to schoolroom; painted decoration on chancel roof; C12 font from Over Morton Church incised with chevrons; C19 fittings. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p635; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p115)

Listing NGR: SP4442531849