Church Of St Blaise

HILTON HIGH STREET SU4892 (West side) 8/155 Church of Saint Blaise 09/02/66 GV II*

Church. C14 west tower and south porch; nave, north aisle, and chancel c.1849 by Henry Woodyer. Coursed stone rubble to tower; squared coursed stone to nave, aisle, and chancel; C19 plain-tile roof; roof of tower not visible, 4-bay nave and north aisle, 2-bay chancel and west tower. Gothic Revival style. C19 plank door to 2 centre arched doorway to left of nave, with stone-vaulted stone porch. Cl9 Perpendicular tracery windows to nave, aisle, and chancel. Tower: 2-light plate tracery louvred openings to each side of bell chamber stage. Battlemented parapet. Interior; arch-braced collar truss roofs to chancel, north aisle, and part of nave. Plaster vault to rest of nave. C19 reredos, altar, altar rail and painted inscriptions to chancel. C19 stone pulpit with C20 alterations to right of nave, Moved C19 stone font to north aisle, History: Bryant Barrett of Milton Manor House (q.v.) built his family vault onto the Church in 1769. Bishop Challoner was buried here in 1791, until his remains were removed in 1947 to Westminster Cathedral. (Buildings of England: Berkshire: 1975, p178; Milton Manor, Oxfordshire by S. Mockler, undated)

Listing NGR: SU4853692417