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© Mrs Hilary Taylor
IoE Number:
249488
Location:
CHURCH OF THE HOLY ASCENSION,
LITTLEWORTH, VALE OF WHITE HORSE, OXFORDSHIRE
Photographer:
Mrs Hilary Taylor
Date Photographed:
17 July 2001
Date listed:
21 November 1966
Date of last amendment:
21 November 1966
Grade
II
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LITTLEWORTH LITTLEWORTH
SU 3197
2/3 Church of the Holy
Ascension
21.11.66
- II
Church 1839 by H J Underwood of Oxford with chancel 1876. Rubble stone with
ashlar dressings. Lancet Gothic. 3-bay nave, broad, aisleless with low
pitched stone tiled roof. Side buttresses and diagonal angle buttresses
with string course at level of top set-off and window heads. Dentil eaves
course. More elaborate west front with bellcote and 2-light west window
with quatrefoil light over, all ashlar with hoodmould stepped up from string
course. Gabled porch with shafted moulded arch and carved foliage capitals.
2-bay chancel, crazed rubble. Cusped lancets and 3 lancets to east end.
Projecting plinth. Priest's door with ornate ironwork. Interior: Thin false
hammerbeam nave roof, arched braced collar truss with crown posts to chancel.
East window with-moulded rear arches and triple shafts between lights. In
nave 4 panels of sacred texts painted on metal in a C15 illuminated manuscript
style. Church founded by the Tractarian, E B Pusey.