Churchgate House

SP3003-3103 BAMPTON CHURCH CLOSE (South-west side) 13/70 Churchgate House 12/09/55 (Formerly listed as Church Gate)

GV II Former vicarage, now house. Main front block rebuilt 1799 by Daniel Harris (Pevsner); older rear wing with C16/C17 doorway; refurbished mid C20, with altered side fenestration and small extensions. Coursed rubble limestone with stone slate and C20 tile roof and rubble stone chimneys. 2 storeys. Double pile front block is of 3 bays with hipped stone slate roof. Front has projecting plinth, first floor band course, and 4-pane sashes with wooden lintels. To ground floor left is a fine bow projection of ashlar with 2 moulded stone steps, parapet, and 3 curved full-height sashes, each 3-panes wide. Central 6-panelled door with radiating fanlight in semi-circular arch of dressed stone. 2 moulded stone steps. Lower rear wing has hipped C20 tile roof, and altered fenestration, the south wall retaining a blocked doorway with chamfered 4-centred stone arch. Interior of front block retains contemporary moulded ceiling cornices, panelled doors in architrave frames, and window shutters. Dog-leg stair with stick balusters, possibly in altered position. House served as vicarage for Lew portion of Bampton parish until mid C19 when Lew became a separate parish. Bampton was notable from the middle ages onwards for having 3 vicars at a time, the other vicarages now known as Cobb House and Kilmore House (q.v.). (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: 1974, p432; Reverend J.A. Giles: History of the Parish and Town of Bampton, 1848)

Listing NGR: SP3127203266