Church of St Edburg, Bicester

Heritage listing

Details BICESTER CHURCH STREET SP5822S (South side) 3/24 Church of St. Edburg 31/01/52 GV I Church. Probably C11, C12, C13 and C14, altered C15 and C16; tower C15/early C16; restored 1862 by C.N. Beazley in consultation with G.E. Street. Part-coursed limestone rubble with ashlar and some marlstone-ashlar dressings; lead and Welsh-slate roofs. Cruciform plan with north chancel aisle, nave aisles, west tower and north porch. Restored chancel retains C12 ashlar clasping buttresses and a small Gothic priest's door to south, but has a 5-light east window and 2- and 3-light side windows in C19 Geometrical-Decorated style. The aisle to north formerly incorporated a priest's dwelling, and has 2 square-headed C15 windows facing east, both with cinquefoil lights and labels, one originally serving an upper floor; a C15 stair with 3-centre arched entrance projects at the north-east-angle; north wall has two 2-light C19 windows, plus a blocked rubble archway in the lower part of the wall. The north transept retains fragments of a C12 chevron string course, interrupted by a large 4-centre-arched 5-light window with Perpendicular drop tracery and a deep casement mould. A later extension to west has a restored 2-light window with reticulated tracery plus the outline of an arched opening, and is continued westwards by the narrower early-C14 north aisle which retains two 2-light C14 windows to north plus a later large single-light window to west. The C14 porch has an entrance arch with wave mouldings, and shelters the north door with earlier C14 mouldings; the small 2-light traceried window to west is also C14, but the 2-light east window is C15 as is the former upper floor with its square-headed 2-light C15 north window and crenellated parapet. The south transept also has remains of the

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.