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Church of St Michael

A Grade I Listed Building in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire

  • Stanton Harcourt Church, Oxon. - Tomb of Sir Philip Harcourt and Wife

  • St Michael: Norman cruciform church; central tower, middle stage Norman, upper stage Perpendicular

  • St Michael: Early English chancel & north transept with tall lancet windows

  • St Michael: view from the south showing Pope's Tower, the chapel tower from the Harcourt manor house to the west

  • St Michael: Perpendicular Harcourt chapel, c.1470, attributed to William Orchard, master builder of Oxford's Magdalen College tower

  • St Michael: nave with Norman windows; c.1400 nave roof with traceried spandrels; c13 chancel screen

  • St Michael: chancel with triple lancet east window with clustered shafts & stiff-leaf capitals

  • St Michael: font made in 1833; said to be a copy of c15 original

  • St Michael: three glass panels in Harcourt chapel; the oval ones of the abbot & king are mid c13, the round one of Harcourt arms is late c15

  • St Michael: shrine & Easter Sepulchre formerly housing the relics of St Edburga, abbess of Aylesbury

  • St Michael: stone effigy of a lady, c.1400, perhaps identified as Maud (nee Grey of Rotherfield), d.1394, who married Thomas Harcourt

  • St Michael: close up of Maud Harcourt (nee Grey), d.1394, with nebulee headdress

  • St Michael: shields at the base of the monument to Maud Harcourt, c.1400; arms include Harcourt & Grey of Rotherfield

  • St Michael: Robert Harcourt, d.1471, his wife Margaret (Byron) behind; alabaster effigies on tomb chest, shields in traceried frames

  • St Michael: east end of the Harcourt chapel; tomb of Robert Harcourt, d.1509; standard bearer to future Henry VII at Bosworth

  • St Michael: Robert Harcourt, d.1509; Lancastrian SS collar

  • St Michael: tomb of Simon Harcourt, d.1547; shields in quatrefoils

  • St Michael: memorial to Christopher Hovenden, d.1610

  • St Michael: memorial to Robert Huntingdon, d.1685

  • St Michael: portrait bust of Philip Harcourt, d.1688

  • St Michael: portrait bust of Anne (nee Waller of Osterley Park), d.1664, wife of Philip Harcourt, d.1688

  • St Michael: inscriptions from the memorial to Philip Harcourt, d.1688, & wife Anne (Waller)

  • St Michael: pedimented wall tablet Simon Harcourt, d.1720

  • St Michael: Thomas Harcourt, d.1460, & Nicholas Atherton, d.1454

  • St Michael: Elen, wife of John Camby, d.1516

  • St Michael: Henry Dodschone, d.1519, in mass vestments

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Entry Name: Church of St Michael

Listing Date: 12 September 1955

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1053164

English Heritage Legacy ID: 252380

ID on this website: 101053164

Location: St Michael's Church, Stanton Harcourt, West Oxfordshire, OX29

County: Oxfordshire

District: West Oxfordshire

Civil Parish: Stanton Harcourt

Built-Up Area: Stanton Harcourt

Traditional County: Oxfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire

Church of England Parish: Stanton Harcourt

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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