Church of St Blaise is a Grade II* listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1966. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Blaise
- WRENN ID
- pale-hearth-grain
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1966
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Blaise, High Street, Milton
- OS grid reference
- SU 485 924
- Coordinates
- 51.62848, -1.30018
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Blaise is a Grade II* listed building located on Hilton High Street. It features a 14th-century west tower and south porch, while the nave, north aisle, and chancel were constructed around 1849 by Henry Woodyer. The tower is made of coursed stone rubble, and the nave, aisle, and chancel are built from squared coursed stone. The church has a plain-tile roof from the 19th century, and the roof of the tower is not visible. The structure includes a four-bay nave and north aisle, a two-bay chancel, and the west tower is designed in the Gothic Revival style.
The entrance to the nave has a 19th-century plank door set within a two-centred arched doorway, which is accompanied by a stone-vaulted stone porch. The nave, aisle, and chancel feature 19th-century windows with Perpendicular tracery. The tower has two-light plate tracery louvred openings on each side of the bell chamber stage and is topped with a battlemented parapet.
Inside, the church has arch-braced collar truss roofs in the chancel, north aisle, and part of the nave, while the rest of the nave has a plaster vault. The chancel is adorned with a 19th-century reredos, altar, altar rail, and painted inscriptions. There is a 19th-century stone pulpit with 20th-century alterations located to the right of the nave, and a stone font from the 19th century has been moved to the north aisle.
Historically, Bryant Barrett of Milton Manor House built his family vault onto the church in 1769. Bishop Challoner was buried here in 1791, but his remains were removed to Westminster Cathedral in 1947.
Local climate
Church of St Blaise 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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