Church Of St Mary

HARDWICK WITH YELFORD STANDLAKE ROAD SP3706 (West side) Cokethorpe 19/196 Church of St. Mary 12/09/55

GV II*

Church, now school chapel. Late C15, with earlier origins; restored 1874 by E.C. Bruton who rebuilt north chancel wall and added north aisle, south porch and extended chancel. Coursed limestone rubble, except 1874 work of dressed stone; gabled C20 tile roof. Chancel, aisled nave and north-west tower. 3-light plate-tracery east window. 2-bay chancel has offset corner and wall buttresses, reset C15 doorway and late C15 two-light square-headed window to north; and C15 doorway with quatrefoil spandrels and two similar windows, one with restored round-arched lights, to south. 3-bay north aisle has lancets; south wall of nave has C15 offset buttress, 2-light square-headed window with round-arched lights, and C15 hollow-chamfered doorway with ancient studded and ribbed door; late C19 south porch. Hood mould over late C15 three-light west window with round-arched lights. Tower has clasping buttresses and late C15/early C16 round-arched lights, and C13 paired lancets to west; late C19 roughcast bell-stage. Interior: quatrefoil piscina to south, and round-arched recess with medieval credence shelf; C18 communion rail with twisted balusters. Nave has C17 parish chest; late C17 polygonal pulpit with cartouches surrounded by sphinxes, fruit and flowers; and very fine early/mid C12 Norman font with beaded interlacing arcs, plain and twisted pilasters, and rosette and shell medallions. Stained glass: east window by Usher and Kelly, 1874. Church mentioned in charter of 957. On deserted medieval village site. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.633).

Listing NGR: SP3735606244