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Church of St John the Evangelist

A Grade II Listed Building in Little Tew, Oxfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.9541 / 51°57'14"N

Longitude: -1.442 / 1°26'31"W

OS Eastings: 438446

OS Northings: 228546

OS Grid: SP384285

Mapcode National: GBR 6SQ.G81

Mapcode Global: VHBZ9.Y4KT

Plus Code: 9C3WXH35+J6

Entry Name: Church of St John the Evangelist

Listing Date: 18 May 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1368194

English Heritage Legacy ID: 251908

Also known as: Church of St John the Evangelist, Little Tew

ID on this website: 101368194

Location: St John's Church, Little Tew, West Oxfordshire, OX7

County: Oxfordshire

District: West Oxfordshire

Civil Parish: Little Tew

Traditional County: Oxfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire

Church of England Parish: Little Tew

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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Description


LITTLE TEW SP3828 11/96 Church of St. John the Evangelist GV II Church. 1853 by G.E Street; north aisle and tower 1869 by Charles Buckeridge. Limestone ashlar; artificial stone-slate roofs. Nave, chancel, 2-bay north aisle, north-west tower, and north-east vestry. Early English and Decorated styles. Chancel has shallow buttresses, a 5-light traceried east window and a 2-light traceried window to south. Nave has groups of cusped lancets and, to west, has 3 lancets below a sexfoiled circle. North aisle has paired lancets, and north gable wall of Street's vestry has a shouldered-arched doorway below a 2-light traceried window with 2 triangular-headed lights below a sexfoiled circle. 3-stage tower contains the main doorway, with 2 pairs of shafts and an outer roll moulding, and has a saddle-back roof with large traceried 3-light bell-chamber openings in the gable ends, lancets in the sides, and a band of quatrefoil openings below. Interior: chancel is defined by the change from an arch-braced collar-truss roof to a 7-canted coupled-rafter roof. North arcade has a quatrefoil pier and composite responds. C19 fittings include brass communion rails and a low chancel screen with wrought-iron cresting. Stained glass in east window (c.1872) and 2 south windows (c,1856 and c.1859). (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.XI, p.257; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.690).

Listing NGR: SP3844628546

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