Church Of St John The Evangelist

LITTLE TEW SP3828 11/96 Church of St. John the Evangelist GV II Church. 1853 by G.E Street; north aisle and tower 1869 by Charles Buckeridge. Limestone ashlar; artificial stone-slate roofs. Nave, chancel, 2-bay north aisle, north-west tower, and north-east vestry. Early English and Decorated styles. Chancel has shallow buttresses, a 5-light traceried east window and a 2-light traceried window to south. Nave has groups of cusped lancets and, to west, has 3 lancets below a sexfoiled circle. North aisle has paired lancets, and north gable wall of Street's vestry has a shouldered-arched doorway below a 2-light traceried window with 2 triangular-headed lights below a sexfoiled circle. 3-stage tower contains the main doorway, with 2 pairs of shafts and an outer roll moulding, and has a saddle-back roof with large traceried 3-light bell-chamber openings in the gable ends, lancets in the sides, and a band of quatrefoil openings below. Interior: chancel is defined by the change from an arch-braced collar-truss roof to a 7-canted coupled-rafter roof. North arcade has a quatrefoil pier and composite responds. C19 fittings include brass communion rails and a low chancel screen with wrought-iron cresting. Stained glass in east window (c.1872) and 2 south windows (c,1856 and c.1859). (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.XI, p.257; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.690).

Listing NGR: SP3844628546