Church Of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Church Of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- mired-hammer-dawn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SYDENHAM
1706/12/80 Church of St Mary 18-JUL-63
GV II*
Church. C13; restored 1850 by J. Billing of Reading with lengthening of nave, rebuilding of tower arches, replacement of tower, addition of north transept and vestry. Knapped flint with stone dressings; old plain-tile roof; weatherboarded spire with a shingle roof. Nave and chancel with central tower. C19 porch with 2-centred archway and doorway; C19 plank door. Lancet windows. Pyramidal spire to right of centre with 2-light louvred opening to each side. Rear; lancet windows to all openings. East end: 3-light intersecting tracery window. West end: paired lancet. Interior: plaster vault to chancel; 2-centred chancel arch. 2-centre crossing-arch. C15 4-bay hammerbeam nave roof with 2 rows of windbraces. 2-bay hammerbeam roof to transept and vestry; piscina to right of crossing-arch; plain round stone font, proabably C12 and decoration cut off. Set into north and south walls of chancel is the rare survival of wooden pulley wheels and corbels of Lenten Veil. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, 1974, p.810-2; V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VIII, 1964, p.125-6).
Listing NGR: SP7296301839
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