New Hinksey Vicarage

The New Hinksey Vicarage dates from 1887-88 and was designed by Harry Wilkinson Moore, with some alterations by John Oldrid Scott. It is a brick building with a pitched tile roof and stone dressings to windows.

The building comprises a long range adjacent to the church. The east elevation, facing the church, features a projecting gabled porch with a wide, Tudor-arched opening to a recessed door, leading to a vestibule. This connects to both the parish room and the hall giving access to the residential quarters. A trades entrance is also present on this elevation, along with several service rooms to the north end. A large dining room and drawing room each feature a fireplace and a large bay window.

The east elevation’s porch has a plinth, and the first floor is jettied with a triple cusped lancet window in the gable. The gable is edged in stone with projecting pieces imitating purlins, and a Celtic cross finial tops the ridge. Two double cross windows (eight lights) are situated on the first floor, divided by two smaller projecting gables with pairs of lancets and stone bracketed courses below the jettied first floor, above the trades entrance. A flared buttress exists at the end of the range, alongside another pair of double gables (not jettied) with tripartite windows in heavy quoined stone dressings to the first floor.

The west elevation has five two-storey gables, each with a four-light lancet window in stone dressings and a shallow Tudor arch to the first floor. Decorative drainpipe caps are found at the end of the stone edging on each gable. Two gables at the north end are jettied with stone coursing and curved stone brackets. The centre bay and bay to the south end feature ground floor bay windows with brick parapets and prominent stone cross windows with heavy stone dressings. A segmental headed doorway with slender sidelights in stone dressings is located on the southern side of the final bay, whilst the second bay from the south has a ground floor triple cusped lancet window. A flared buttress is present.

The south elevation shows a projecting end stack to the centre, flanked by triple cusped lancet windows at first floor under a segmental arch. The north elevation of the single-storey range has simpler windows for the service rooms. Three stacks run across the ridge, each with shallow gabled hoods, through which the five pots project.

Inside, the vicarage has good quality joinery throughout, with stairs hidden behind a screen. Timber chimneypieces with marble inserts are present, one featuring notable tiles.

The vicarage is largely unaltered and represents a thoughtful and well-crafted example of Tudor Manor and Art and Crafts style. It has group value with St John the Evangelist church.