St Mary's Church, Charlbury

Heritage listing

Details SP3519 5/35 CHARLBURY CHURCH STREET (north side) Church of St Mary 27/8/56 GV I Parish Church. C12, C13, C14, C15 and C16; restored 1856 by G.E Street; chancel restored 1874 by C. Buckeridge for John, Duke of Marlborough. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; sheet-metal and concrete plain-tile roofs. Chancel with north and south chapels, aisles, nave, west tower and south porch. C13 chancel retains a restored lancet to north, but the five-light east window has Decorated tracery. Transeptal north chapel has a two-light C13 north window with a shafted mullion and a concave-sided lozenge in the head (cf. St Matthew, Langford); buttresses, parapet and segmental-headed east window are C15/C16. South chapel, 'The Pudlicote Aisle', is equal in size to the chancel which it post-dates, and has a similar C14-style east window (restored c.1875). Tudor-arched south windows, of two wide lights with plain tracery, are similar to those in the south aisle; though claimed to be the result of an C18 simplification (VCH and Pevsner), the windows look intact and may be C16. A buttress on the south chapel has a painted sundial dated 1776. South porch may also be C16 and has a Tudor-arched doorway with an ancient panelled door; it shelters the fine trefoil-headed C13 south doorway with matching roll-moulded arch rising from shafted jambs. North aisle retains a lancet to west, but was widened (probably C15) and has two four-centre-arched windows to north with casement mouldings and altered tracery. Nave clerestory has plain mullioned windows to south, but to north has two windows with cinquefoil heads. Unbuttressed tower is C13 in the three lower stages (stages two and three have no dividing string), but has a crenellated C15 bell-chamber stage with traceried openings; earl

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.