Church Of St Mary

CROWELL CHINNOR ROAD SU7499 (South side) 20/76 Church of St. Mary 18/07/63

GV II

Church. c.1878, incorporating some earlier work. By H.J. Tollit of Oxford and Edwin Dolby of London. Knapped flint with stone dressings; old plain-tile roof; stone bellcote. 3-bay nave, 2-bay chancel, with vestry. Porch to left of nave with 2-centred archway and gabled old plain-tile roof; C13 two-centre arched doorway with hood mould, having C19 plank door. 3-light reticulated tracery window to nave right. 2-light reticulated tracery windows to chancel. Rear: Romanesque round-arched doorway with moulded imposts and hood mould, having plank door, to centre of nave. 3-light reticulated tracery window to right. Catslide roof to vestry to left. 2-light reticulated tracery windows to chancel. East end: 3-light reticulated tracery window. West end. 2-light reticulated tracery window, stone bellcote to gable apex. Interior: wood barrel-vault roof to chancel; arch-braced collar-truss roof to nave. East window c.1870 by Kempe. C19 stone carved reredos. Sedilia formed from lancet tracery. C13 brass reset to left wall of chancel. C19 stone font. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p.560-1; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VIII, 1964, p.89-90).

Listing NGR: SU7440199692