Church of St Simon and St Jude is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1976. Church.
Church of St Simon and St Jude
- WRENN ID
- dim-cinder-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1976
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Simon and St Jude, Church Road, Milton-Under-Wychwood
- OS grid reference
- SP 264 186
- Coordinates
- 51.86606, -1.61681
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Simon and St Jude is a Church of England church located in Milton-under-Wychwood, built between 1853 and 1854. It was designed by G E Street, who was the Diocesan Architect for Oxford at the time. The church is constructed from coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and features concrete tile roofs. It is designed in a late 13th-century style and consists of a 5-bay aisled nave with a south porch and a 2-bay chancel with a south chapel.
Notable architectural features include a large west buttress supporting a central octagonal belfry, which is topped by a spirelet and has minimal lucarnes and gables. The side windows have plate tracery, while the clerestory features foiled spherical triangles. The lancets flanking the west buttress display geometrical tracery, and there is a prominent 5-light east window. The south porch showcases 1300-style mouldings and has a pointed entrance on heavy responds. Inside, the porch is vaulted with a domical vault supported by ribs, and the south door has a treble chamfer with pyramidal stops. The south aisle features a cusped head archway leading from the porch, and the west window of the porch is stunted with oval tracery.
Local climate
Church of St Simon and St Jude receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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