Church of St Andrew is a Grade I listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- drifting-soffit-tide
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Andrew, Wheatfield
- OS grid reference
- SU 688 992
- Coordinates
- 51.68802, -1.00515
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Andrew is a Grade I listed building dating from the 14th century, with restoration and remodeling around 1730 for the Rudge family. It features a rendered exterior on stone rubble, stone dressings, and an old plain-tile roof with a wooden bellcote at the ridge. The church has a three-bay nave, a two-bay chancel, and a west porch. The porch contains an eight-panel door framed by a moulded stone architrave with a pulvinated frieze and a triangular pediment, which has a cornice that serves as a string-course around the porch. There are blocked 14th-century doorways with two-centre arched heads on both sides of the nave. The nave has two round-headed 18th-century windows with leaded lights, and the chancel has one round-headed 18th-century window. Both the nave and chancel are topped with battlemented parapets and end gables. The rear of the church features two round-headed 18th-century windows in the nave and one in the chancel. The east end has a Venetian window with leaded lights, while the west end has a round-headed 18th-century window above the porch.
Inside, the nave boasts a 14th-century three-bay king-post roof and a plaster vault in the chancel. Early 18th-century fittings include an altar table, altar rail, box pews, a family pew with a frieze of pierced scroll work, a pulpit with a tester, a reading desk, and a stone font on a vase-baluster. A monument to John Rudge, created around 1730 by P. Scheemakers, features a pedimented Corinthian frame on brackets, topped with reclining cherubs and an urn. The west window contains 18th-century armorial stained glass, while the east window was designed by Morris and Co. around 1898.
Local climate
Church of St Andrew sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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