Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- odd-flue-indigo
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Mary, Standlake Road, Hardwick-With-Yelford
- OS grid reference
- SP 373 062
- Coordinates
- 51.75365, -1.46022
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary, now serving as a school chapel, dates from the late 15th century but has earlier origins. It was restored in 1874 by E.C. Bruton, who rebuilt the north chancel wall, added a north aisle and south porch, and extended the chancel. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble, with the 1874 work done in dressed stone, and features a gabled 20th-century tile roof. The church comprises a chancel, aisled nave, and a north-west tower.
The east window has three lights with plate tracery. The two-bay chancel includes an offset corner and wall buttresses, a reset 15th-century doorway, and a late 15th-century two-light square-headed window to the north. The south side features a 15th-century doorway with quatrefoil spandrels and two similar windows, one of which has restored round-arched lights. The three-bay north aisle has lancet windows, while the south wall of the nave includes a 15th-century offset buttress, a two-light square-headed window with round-arched lights, and a hollow-chamfered doorway with an ancient studded and ribbed door. The late 19th-century south porch is also present.
Above the late 15th-century three-light west window with round-arched lights is a hood mould. The tower features clasping buttresses, late 15th to early 16th-century round-arched lights, and 13th-century paired lancets to the west, with a roughcast bell-stage added in the late 19th century.
Inside, there is a quatrefoil piscina to the south and a round-arched recess with a medieval credence shelf. The 18th-century communion rail has twisted balusters. The nave contains a 17th-century parish chest, a late 17th-century polygonal pulpit adorned with cartouches surrounded by sphinxes, fruit, and flowers, and a remarkable early to mid-12th-century Norman font featuring beaded interlacing arcs, plain and twisted pilasters, and rosette and shell medallions. The east window is adorned with stained glass by Usher and Kelly from 1874. The church is mentioned in a charter from 957 and is located on the site of a deserted medieval village.
Local climate
Church of St Mary receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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