Description

CARLTON HIGHDALE HORSEHOUSE SE 08 SW 6/69 Church of St Botolph 13.2.67 GV II

Church. 1869, possibly incorporating some earlier fabric. Rubble, mainly coursed, stone slate roof. 3-storey west tower, nave and chancel in one of 4 external and 6 internal bays, with south porch. Tower: uncoursed rubble, possibly of earlier date. Quoins. Stepped angle buttresses. Second floor 2-light pointed-arched belfry opening with Y-tracery and hoodmould. String and battlemented parapet. Porch: quoined. Pointed-arched opening with continuous chamfer and hoodmould. Shaped kneeler and coping with cross to gable. Inner doorway, pointed-arched with continuous chamfer. Nave: plinth. Bays divided by stepped buttresses. Two 2-light pointed-arched windows with Y-tracery and hoodmoulds; lancet window with hoodmould to right. Gutter brackets. Shaped kneeler, ashlar coping and gable cross to right. East end: watershot masonry. 3-light window with intersecting tracery and hoodmould. North side: 3 double-chamfered lancet windows. Between first and second windows, circular ashlar eaves chimney, rubble eaves chimney at right end. Tower, north side: steps up to ringing chamber doorway (being altered at time of resurvey); first-floor louvred bow-topped opening in ashlar surround. Tower, west side: ground-floor single-light bow-topped window in ashlar surround; 2-light belfry opening as on south side, bricked up at time of resurvey. Interior: chancel in fifth bay, sanctuary in sixth bay, separated by round sub-arch to king-post roof truss. King-post roof trusses. Round arch to tower. Established c1530 as a chapel of ease to be served by the Premonstratensian canons of Coverham Abbey.

Listing NGR: SE0472181262

External Links

• Church of St Botolph at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26424371

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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