Church Of St Michael And All Angels is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 2001. Church.

Church Of St Michael And All Angels

WRENN ID
winding-hinge-hazel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oxford
Country
England
Date first listed
12 July 2001
Type
Church
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael and All Angels is an Anglican church built in 1909, designed by Alfred Mardon Mowbray. It features coursed ragstone with stone dressings, and originally had a temporary brick west end. The church is designed in the Early English style.

The layout consists of a one-bay aisled nave, which was intended to have four bays, and two additional bays that open into wide and deep transepts on the north and south sides. The deep chancel has three bays and is the same width as the nave, flanked by low arcaded aisles leading to the Lady Chapel at the southeast and a two-level service area to the southwest, which includes a vestry below and an organ loft above, accessed by a stair from the north transept.

The south elevation features a projecting transept with a steeply pitched roof and a round quatrefoil above a pair of large pointed arch windows, each with three quatrefoils above two pairs of lancets framed by stone hood-moulds that step down to meet stone buttresses. The lower Lady Chapel also has buttresses and lancets with hood-moulds arranged in sets of three. The chancel wall above the Lady Chapel has three lancets in each bay. The west elevation is made of brick with four high brick buttresses. The north elevation mirrors the south, with a projecting transept and matching windows. The chancel wall has three high lancets in each bay. The east elevation features a large window with a cinquefoil at the center top and five lancets below, with the Lady Chapel being separate on the exterior. A bellcote is situated over the crossing, and there is a stone plaque marked 'February 11 1909'.

Inside, the tall nave and chancel, along with the transepts that are almost equal in height to the nave, create a hall church effect. The wood, five-part ceilings throughout have wood ribs connecting to stone wall shafts emerging from the compound piers. A high chancel arch spans the width of the nave, and there are shallow steps leading to the altar in the chancel. At the west end, long and low half-arches separate the aisled bay of the nave from the transepts. There is a wide arch leading to the Lady Chapel from the south transept, which features a 1921 war memorial window at the east end set in a stone altarpiece adorned with carved angel busts. A stone font is also present.

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