St Mary's Church (Newnham Murren)
Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 30.8 " N , 1 ° 7 ′ 13.1" W.
St Mary's Church is a redundant church building of the Anglican Church in the hamlet of Newnham Murren in Oxfordshire in England. It was added to the Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest on February 9, 1959 by English Heritage as a Grade II * structure ; the structure is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust . St Mary's stands at the end of a dirt road above the Thames , near Ridgeway , an old street and today's long-distance hiking trail .
history
The church dates from the 12th century, in the following century the structure was expanded and changed. In 1849 the building was renewed. An entrance portal and a belfry were added during the 19th century . On January 23, 1973, the church building was declared redundant, and on May 21, 1974, it was assigned to the Churches Conservation Trust.
architecture
St Mary's was built of flint and decorated with other stone materials; the roof is tiled . The floor plan consists of the nave with a side aisle on the south side. the sanctuary and the entrance portal to the north. The bell tower rises from the western gable of the nave. The portal is a timber frame construction on a flint base with a tiled roof. The doorway is of the Norman style. To the left of the entrance portal there is a lancet window , two more lancet windows sit in the north wall of the sanctuary and similar windows in the south outer wall. The window to the east was installed in the 19th century; it has three lancets and panel tracery .
The interior walls of the church are whitewashed and the windows are made with stained glass. The roof dates from the Middle Ages . The arch of the choir was built in the Norman style; to the right of this the wall contains a hagioscope . In the chancel, a piscina is built into a wall niche in the south wall, and a double sacrament niche is cut out in the north wall. When the structure was renovated in 1849, most of the interior was replaced, but a Jacobean style pulpit and communion table are still in place. A brass plaque made in the 16th century is attached to the wall of the aisle .
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supporting documents
- ↑ a b c d e f g Church of St Mary, Crowmarsh ( English ) In: The National Heritage List for England . English Heritage . 2011. Archived from the original on April 4, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
- ↑ a b c d e f St Mary's Church, Newnham Murren, Oxfordshire ( English ) Churches Conservation Trust . Retrieved April 20, 2011.
- ↑ Diocese of Oxford: All Schemes ( English , PDF; 39 kB) In: Church Commissioners / Statistics . Church of England . 2011. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
