Church of St Lawrence South Hinksey, England
Listed Building Data
Church of St Lawrence has been designated a Grade II* listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1048297
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II*
- Date Listed
- 9 February 1966
- Name
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE
- Location
- CHURCH OF ST LAWRENCE, ST LAWRENCES ROAD
- Parish
- South Hinksey
- District
- Vale of White Horse
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Grid Reference
- SP 50973 03969
- Easting
- 450973.0000
- Northing
- 203969.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
SOUTH HINKSEY ST. LAWRENCE'S ROAD SP50SW (West side) 7/121 Church of St. Lawrence 09/02/66 (Formerly listed as St. Lawrence's Church) GV II* Church. Early/mid C13: late C15 tower: chancel rebuilt in late C18. Uncoursed limestone rubble, coursed to chancel: tower of dressed limestone. Stone-coped gabled stone slate roof. Chancel, nave and west tower. One-bay late C18 chancel has round-arched leaded windows with raised key- and impost-blocks. 3-bay south wall of nave has C13 pointed lancets (one with scratch dial) and paired lancet with late C19 head and mullion: north wall of nave has early C14 two-light ogee-headed window, late C19 timber and glazed porch and C17 chamfered round-arched doorway. Tower: revealed 2-light cinquefoil-headed window above plain chamfered 4-centred doorway to ancient studded door, cemented at base: 2-light round-arched belfry windows: stair-turret with slit light to north side. Interior: C13 chamfered 2-centred chancel arch. Medieval rood stairs in south-east corner of nave: squint from former rood-loft to altar above chancel arch. 3 arches over double piscina with quatrefoil basins. C13 tub font. Hollow-chamfered archway with moulded imposts to tower. Rood screen built in 1932, pulpit in 1936 and nave roof in 1959. Plain mid C19 and C20 wall tablets in chancel: floor tablet to Jane Willis, d.1723, in nave floor. (Buildings of England: Berkshire, p.222; V.C.H.: Berkshire, Vol.IV, p.409).
Listing NGR: SP5097303969
