Church Of The Holy Ascension is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 1966. A Victorian Church. 2 related planning applications.
Church Of The Holy Ascension
- WRENN ID
- scattered-render-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 November 1966
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
LITTLEWORTH LITTLEWORTH SU 3197
2/3 Church of the Holy Ascension 21.11.66
- II
Church 1839 by H J Underwood of Oxford with chancel 1876. Rubble stone with ashlar dressings. Lancet Gothic. 3-bay nave, broad, aisleless with low pitched stone tiled roof. Side buttresses and diagonal angle buttresses with string course at level of top set-off and window heads. Dentil eaves course. More elaborate west front with bellcote and 2-light west window with quatrefoil light over, all ashlar with hoodmould stepped up from string course. Gabled porch with shafted moulded arch and carved foliage capitals. 2-bay chancel, crazed rubble. Cusped lancets and 3 lancets to east end. Projecting plinth. Priest's door with ornate ironwork. Interior: Thin false hammerbeam nave roof, arched braced collar truss with crown posts to chancel. East window with-moulded rear arches and triple shafts between lights. In nave 4 panels of sacred texts painted on metal in a C15 illuminated manuscript style. Church founded by the Tractarian, E B Pusey.
Listing NGR: SU3124897152
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