Church Of St Mary

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IPSDEN Church of St. Mary

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Church. C12, C13, C14, porch of early C17. Flint with brick dressings to porch flint and stone mixture with stone dressings to nave; flint with stone dressings to chancel; plain tile roof. Nave with north aisle and chancel, porch to south. C17 gabled porch to centre of nave with double studded door to 2-centred brick archway with brick hood mould. Ornamental barge boards to gable. 3-light stone Perpendicular window to left with hood mould. 3-light stone Perpendicular window to right of centre with hood mould. 2-light C19 window with hood mould to right. Chancel to right with blocked Romanesque doorway to left, 3 lancets to right. 3-light window of Perpendicular tracery to right return. Rear: 3 lancets to chancel. 3-light stone Perpendicualr window to left return of aisle. Lancet to right hand return of aisle. C19 bellcote to left return. Interior: Romanesque chancel windows with splays with jamb shafts with waterleaf or volute capitals. Transitional chancel arch. Transitional arcade of 2 arches to north aisle. C14 curved principal roof with curved and cusped wind braces to aisle. History: Formerly a chapel of North Stoke and under the patronage of the Abbey of Bec in Normandy. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.662-3).

Listing NGR: SU6339585766