Description

SP61NW PIDDINGTON THAME ROAD
(West side)

11/136 Church of St. Nicholas

07/12/66

GV II*

Church. Late C13, C15 and C16; restored 1855 and by J.O. Scott in 1898. Random
and coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; old plain-tile and
Welsh-slate roofs. Chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and west tower. C13
chancel, with plinth and stepped angle buttresses, has an east window of 3
grouped trefoiled lancets below an outer arch, and, to south, has 2 similar
2-light windows with trefoils in their heads; all have engaged shafts supporting
tracery rolls; to north is a similar lancet plus a 2-light C15 window, and there
is a C14 priest's door to south. South aisle has 2 plain lancets, possibly
re-used, plus a C14 window of 2 ogee-headed lights; a similar window facing west
may be C19. C19 porch, with square traceried openings, shelters a C14 doorway
with continuous moulding. North wall of nave has heavy buttresses, 2
square-headed windows (one with Perpendicular tracery) and a single light
contemporary with the tower. 2-stage C16 tower, with diagonal buttresses and
crenellated parapet, has single-light bell-chamber openings and 2-light west
window, all with 3-centred arches, and has a 4-centre arched west doorway with
shields in the spandrels. Interior: chancel windows have internal shafts and
trefoiled rere arches, to east with the cusps pierced with trefoils. The C14
two-seat sedilia is sumptuously carved with foliage and ballflower ornament and
has cinqufoiled arches, tall canopies and pinnacles; matching canopies to the
piscina and the altered priest's door have been mutilated. An Easter sepulchre
to north is carved with winged cherubs. C19 chancel arch. 4-bay C14 south arcade
has octagonal piers with moulded capitals. Medieval octagonal chalice-shaped
font. C18 turned communion rails. Monuments include 3 early-C18 Baroque wall
tablets, 2 carved with weeping figures, to members of the Walker family.
Fragmentary painting of St. Christopher on north wall of nave.
(V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.V, p.257; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.731).

Listing NGR: SP6399916980

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17548230

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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