Description

CLAYDON WITH CLATTERCOTE MAIN STREET SP4550 (West side) Claydon 10/31 Church of St. James the Great 08/12/55

GV II*

Small church, C12 origins represented by C12 south doorway and north arcade of 3 bays, C12 chancel probably extended in C14 or C15, C14 west tower, C15 south porch. Restoration at 1860 by William White: north aisle almost entirely rebuilt, piscina and sedilia inserted in chancel and all windows renewed. Furnishings almost entirely 1860s. Squared coursed ironstone. Tower has a saddleback roof of stone slate on south, C20-tile on north, Nave and chancel and aisles have C20-tile roofs, Chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch, west tower, 4-window range. 2 entrances, Chancel has painted arched priest's 5 doorway with plank door and weathered head, Chancel has renewed 3-light window with intersecting tracery. Chancel and nave have 2- and 3-light lancet windows mostly restored or renewed by William White. Chancel has 2 buttresses and stone-coped gable. Gabled south porch has stone slate roof and pointed arched doorway with moulded jambs. Plank door and strap hinges. North aisle has smote and triple lancets. Remains of a C14 stone chimney stack. The vent may resemble one at Hanwell but the interior fireplace has gone. West tower. Low with a saddleback roof. 3 stages.Lancets and 2-light trefoil head lancets to bell-stage. Restored ironstone quoins. Interior. C19 Queen strut roofs. North arcade has 3 short round piers with capitals carved with flat upright leaves. North aisle has an Early English arch springing from a corbel with nailhead decoration leading from north aisle to a chapel. The chapel has 3 openings to the chancel, a squint, a C13 arch and a doorway once external as the mouldings are weathered. Fittings and furnishings of 1860 restoration by William White, including piscina, sedilia, pews, pulpit, reading desk and font. Stained glass; east window 1860s by Wailes of Newcastle. South chancel windows of 1860s by Lavers and Barraud. South chancel Windows of - by Lovers and Sarr aud. (Buildings of England: Oxford; 1974, p548; VCH; Oxfordshire; Vol X, p192)

Listing NGR: SP4570350047

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