Description

GOSFORD AND WATER EATON WATER EATON SP51SW 6/46 Chapel at Water Eaton Manor 07/12/66 House (Formerly listed as Manor House, chapel) GV I Domestic chapel. c.1600, restored 1884 by W. Wilkinson and H.W. Moore, and c.1905 by G.F. Bodley. Coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings; Stonesfield-slate roof. Nave and chancel. Perpendicular style. Walls have chamfered plinth, stepped angle buttresses and rise to gable parapets. Chancel east window has 5 cinquefoiled lights within a 4-centre-arched head; south window is similar but of 3 lights, and there are 2 more 3-light windows in the south wall of the nave plus a fourth facing west. South doorway has a 3-centred head with recessed spandrels below a label mould. The west gable has a small bellcote. Interior: nave and chancel have wagon roofs of heavy coupled rafters with arched bracing rising from moulded wall plates. Chancel arch is in Renaissance style with a chamfered semi-circular arch and moulded capitals continued as a cornice. Contemporary fittings include a complete set of bench pews with heavy fleur-de-lys poppyheads, a hexagonal pulpit with carved arched panels, plus sounding board and crested canopy, a fine chancel screen with an arcade of black-painted Ionic columns supporting a strapwork frieze (the lower panelling probably a restoration), and a simple communion table with turned legs. Choir stalls in similar style are C19, as is the rood added by Bodley. Early C20 stained glass in east window. A remarkably complete survival of a rare type. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.826; H. Avray Tipping "Water Eaton Manor, Oxfordshire"; Country Life, Nov. 9th 1907, pp.666-74; V.C.H: Oxfordshire, Vol.12 (to be published).).

Listing NGR: SP5156612104

External Links

• Wikidata Q17528061

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)