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Latitude: 51.8083 / 51°48'29"N
Longitude: -1.6362 / 1°38'10"W
OS Eastings: 425180
OS Northings: 212242
OS Grid: SP251122
Mapcode National: GBR 5SW.M4F
Mapcode Global: VHBZS.LTC5
Plus Code: 9C3WR957+8G
Entry Name: Methodist Church
Listing Date: 12 September 1955
Last Amended: 1 March 1990
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1223964
English Heritage Legacy ID: 419756
ID on this website: 101223964
Location: Burford, West Oxfordshire, OX18
County: Oxfordshire
District: West Oxfordshire
Civil Parish: Burford
Built-Up Area: Burford
Traditional County: Oxfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire
Church of England Parish: Burford
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: English Baroque Protestant church building
BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET
AND SIGNET (East Side)
SP2512 (Enlargement) Methodist Church
7/71 (formerly listed as
12.9.55 Wesleyan Chapel)
GV II*
Non-conformist chapel, formerly town mansion. c.1720-30 for a member of
the Jordan family, converted c.1849. Ashlar, slate roof with coped
verges. Local baroque style. 2 storeys and basement. Channelled
rusticated above basement, fluted and reeded pilasters dividing the front
into 5 bays, full entablature and balustraded parapet over. Glazing bar
sashes (1849 or C20) below struck voussoirs. 1st floor windows have
shaped aprons below, segment-headed basement windows with keys. Central
Gibbsian surround doorpiece with pulvinated frieze and pertinent; C20
panelled doors; transom light; 5 steps up to door, bridging over basement
door (bolection surround) which is approached by curved flights of steps
from the forecourt. To rear 7 close-spaced segment headed windows with
flat raised quoins; the south side has wide part-blocked segmental entry.
The rear doorway within the present stair lobby has pulvinated frieze and
keystone. The rear basement has 3 hollow chamfered mullion windows. The
interior was gutted for the Chapel in 1849. This was redesigned in 1949
has Thomas Rayson of Oxford with inspiration from St Stephen's Wallbrook -
4 Corinthian columns support a ciborium with chandelier. Up to 1849 large
vases capped the parapet and the railings to the front steps (bought for
Cornbury Park by Lord Churchill).
Listing NGR: SP2518012242
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