Latitude: 51.5926 / 51°35'33"N
Longitude: -1.4721 / 1°28'19"W
OS Eastings: 436666
OS Northings: 188328
OS Grid: SU366883
Mapcode National: GBR 6Y4.0N9
Mapcode Global: VHC11.F7MF
Plus Code: 9C3WHGVH+25
Entry Name: Church of St Laurence
Listing Date: 24 November 1966
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1052756
English Heritage Legacy ID: 251277
Also known as: St Laurence's Church, West Challow
ID on this website: 101052756
Location: St Laurence's Church, West Challow, Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, OX12
County: Oxfordshire
District: Vale of White Horse
Civil Parish: West Challow
Traditional County: Berkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire
Tagged with: Church building
WEST CHALLOW SU38NE 2/178 Church of St. Laurence 24/11/66
GV II*
Church. Late C12; late C13 chancel; restored in mid C19. Roughcast over limestone walling; limestone ashlar dressings; stone slate roof; C20 lateral brick stack on limestone ashlar base. Nave and chancel. Late C13 two-light east window, angle buttresses. Side walls of chancel have C15 two-light square-headed windows. South side of nave has mid C19 Plate-tracery 2-light windows flanking early C16 four-centred moulded and blocked doorway. North side of nave has mid C19 two-light C15 style window and late C12 round-headed doorway with waterleaf capitals to single order of shafts. C15 gabled porch has cusped and decorative bargeboard; timber structure and screens to sides over low limestone rubble wall restored in mid C19. West gable has angle buttresses, late C13 trefoil-headed lancet and late C13 double bellcote. Gabled roof. Interior: Chancel has 2 corbels for statues, piscina restored in mid C19, wall tablet to Elizabeth Hobbs, d.1757, and John Hobbs, d.1730. C15 chancel screen with one-light divisions. Nave has early C17 panelled pulpit and C13 tub-shaped font. C18 tie-beam roof. Stained glass: Mid/late C19, except fragments of C15 glass at top of east window. (Buildings of England: Berkshire, pp.262-3).
Listing NGR: SU3666688328
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