Church of St Martin is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1988. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Martin
- WRENN ID
- long-foundation-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 1988
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Martin, Church Street, Bladon, OX20 1RS
- OS grid reference
- SP 449 148
- Coordinates
- 51.83026, -1.34948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Martin is a Grade II listed building located on Church Street in Bladon. This medieval church was rebuilt in 1804 and remodeled in 1891 by architect A.W. Blomfield. It features a limestone ashlar construction with a stone-coped gabled concrete-tile roof. The church includes a chancel with a north chapel, an aisled nave, and a west tower.
The east windows are decorated-style 3-light windows, while the buttressed 3-bay south wall has a foliated round window and cusped one-light windows. The north side has a Perpendicular-style 2-light window and two cusped lights in the north chapel. The nave consists of three gabled bays with 2-light decorated-style windows on the north side, and two similar bays on the south side, which also features a buttress with 14th-century tracery set in the gable and a decorated-style south porch.
The west tower is three stages high, with decorated-style 2-light belfry windows and an embattled parapet adorned with corner pinnacles. Inside, there are late 19th-century chapel and chancel arches, a four-bay timber arcade with an arch-braced roof, and late 19th-century stained glass. This church was formerly the parish church of Woodstock, and it is notable for being the burial site of Sir Winston Churchill in the churchyard.
Local climate
Church of St Martin sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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