Disused Church of St Swithun,Now Village Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1966. Church, village hall.
Disused Church of St Swithun,Now Village Hall
- WRENN ID
- tilted-copper-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1966
- Type
- Church, village hall
- Address
- Disused Church of St Swithun,Now Village Hall, Kennington Road
- OS grid reference
- SP 522 022
- Coordinates
- 51.71668, -1.24487
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The disused Church of St. Swithun, now serving as a village hall, was built in 1828 by Daniel Robertson. It features coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, topped by a stone-coped and gabled stone slate roof. The building has a single-cell plan and is designed in the Norman Revival style. The east window is roll-moulded and supported by engaged shafts with stiff-leaf capitals. The three-bay side walls include roll-moulded windows and have dentilled eaves. A flat-roofed extension was added to the north in the 1960s, and the bellcote on the west gable was also rebuilt during that decade. Above the west door, there is a similar window, and the door itself features a double roll-moulded arch with capitals carved in light relief on engaged shafts of two orders. The interior roof is obscured. This church is an early example of the Norman Revival style, and one of the capitals at the west door is carved with a Sagittarius, which may represent the builder, Bowyer.
Local climate
Disused Church of St Swithun,Now Village Hall 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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