Church of St Mary the Virgin, Witney

Heritage listing

Details SP3509S 11/40 WITNEY CHURCH GREEN (south side) Church of St. Mary the Virgin 14/05/52 GV I Church. C12, rebuilt mid C13; early C14 chapels added to north transept and west end of north aisle; south transept enlarged C15; restored 1865-69 by G.E Street. Coursed and uncoursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; gabled stone slate roof. Cruciform plan, with tower over crossing and aisled nave and transepts. Hood moulds linked to string course above mid C13 east window of graduated triple lancets; north side of chancel has three mid C13 lancets and a C15 three-light Perpendicular window; south side has two similar lancets above C13 pointed chamfered doorway, and south chapel with similar door and lancet and C15 restored three-light Perpendicular window. North transept: east side has mid C13 lancet and C15 offset buttress, early C14 three-light curvilinear window, and a Perpendicular three-light window, now mainly C20; north end has early C14 corner buttresses with cusped and ogee-headed statue niches and a fine seven-light curvilinear north window; west side has three-light curvilinear window, and a similar three-light window and C15 square-headed two-light window to the aisle; entire transept has early C14 corbel table with carved heads of beasts and humans and a C15 clerestory with two two-light windows to east and gargoyles beneath parapet. South transept: east side has two mid C13 lancets, a blocked C12 round-arched chamfered doorway and a blocked C13 double-chamfered archway to former chapel; offset buttresses; fine C15 Perpendicular five-light transomed south window; west aisle has C15 three-light window with panel tracery to south, sundial in south west cornice, and similar windows to north bay and to west chapel window; C15 parapet with gargoyles to aisl

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.