Church Of St Helen

TIDDINGTON-WITH-ALBURY ALBURY SP60NE 3/162 Church of St. Helen 18/07/63

GV II

Small church. 1830. By Thomas Rickman for Hon. Frederick Bertie. Limestone ashlar; C20 artificial stone-slate roofs. Chancel, nave and vestry. Perpendicular style. 2-bay chancel has single-light side windows and 3-light east window under a triangular recess; 3-bay nave has 2-light side windows and a shallow stone-roofed south porch to left of centre. Some windows have simple tracery and all have heavy hood moulds with head stops. West end has small arched doorway, 3 plain lancets in the gable, and a square stone belfry with a stone spirelet decorated with lucarnes and a cross finial. Small lean-to vestry to north of chancel. Interior: Roof has queen-post trusses with curved braces and pendants. Norman tub front with chevron moulding. Early C20 stained glass. Ledger to Mrs. Jane Nares (died 1738) with oval armorial relief. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.V, p.14; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp.419-20).

Listing NGR: SP6555705081