Description

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TL 76 SE
1/17

CHEVINGTON,
CHURCH ROAD,
All Saints' Church

(Formerly listed as: CHEVINGTON, CHURCH ROAD, Church of St.John the Baptist)

14.7.55

I

Church, mediaeval with C16-C18 alterations. Nave, chancel, west tower, south
porch. Nave has late C12 core; south doorway has 2 attached shafts at each
jamb with foliage capitals, tooth ornament bands behind shafts and with roll
moulding over arched head. Plain hood-moulded C12 north doorway; adjacent small
1-light window with broad splayed inner arch. Mid-C13 work includes lancets
and 2-light hood-moulded windows in nave and chancel; narrow chancel arch with
chamfered inner arch springing from stiff-leaf corbels, 2 flanking pointed
openings; simple south nave piscina. South nave porch c.1300, timber-framed
with moulded arched opening, tie-beams with billet and tooth-ornament carving,
and coupled-rafter plaintiled roof. Tower c.1500 (legacy 1494) with angle-
buttresses, 2-light belfry openings and 3-light west window; some flushwork at
the base. The tower parapets raised a full stage, with tall crocketed corner
finials, by Marquis of Bristol c.1800. Nave walling raised early C16, with red
brick crenellated parapets; cambered arch-braced tie-beam roof with traceried
spandrels, and ogee-moulded ridge and purlins, crenellated cornice (tie-beams
later intruded between wall-posts of each truss to prevent spreading, carved
with "C.P. 1638" "SP 1638" and "1590 Thomas Frost"). 2 early C16 2-light
windows in south nave wall. Chancel east window early C17, 5 arched lights in
plain square frame. Chancel roof early C17 with ovolo-moulded cambered tie-
beams, ridge and purlins. Octagonal limestone font, early C15 with sunk
quatrefoil tracery on bowl and pilasters on base. Fine C15 pews; traceried
ends with poppyhead musicians playing various instruments. Fragments of
mediaeval glass in south windows. Panel with arms of George I, "GR 1726".

Listing NGR: TL7887960122

Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)