Church Of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1987. A C19 Church.
Church Of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- bitter-soffit-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1987
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a church built around 1865, incorporating some earlier features. It was designed by A.W. Blomfield for H. Birch Reynardson. The building is constructed of knapped flint with stone dressings and has an old plain-tile roof. It features a stone bellcote and a stone chimney stack on the ridge of the chancel chapel. The church has a four-bay nave and a chancel with chancel chapels, all in the Gothic Revival style.
To the left of the nave, there is a porch that contains a re-set Romanesque doorway with a moulded round arch supported by columns, along with a 19th-century plank door. The nave has two-light windows with reticulated tracery, while the chancel chapel has a two-light window with Y-tracery. The rear of the nave features lancet windows, except for a two-light window with reticulated tracery on the right. The chancel chapel also has a two-light Y-tracery window, and the east end is adorned with a three-light window featuring intersecting tracery. The west end includes a central buttress that supports an ornate stone bellcote, flanked by lancets.
Inside, the church has scissor-braced roofs in the chancel and chapels, and an arch-braced collar-truss roof with king-posts in the nave. Notable interior features include a Minton encaustic tile reredos, sedilia with re-set Early English tracery, and a Gothick-style monument to Frances Webb from around 1846 located in the north chancel chapel. There is also an effigy of a knight holding his heart, partially covered by a shield, dating to around 1300, on the north wall of the nave. The church has a 19th-century font supported by cluster columns, and the east window was created by H. Hughes.
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