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St Laurence, Oxhill, Warwickshire

Location
(52°6′24″N, 1°32′18″W)
Oxhill
SP 317 455
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Warwickshire
now Warwickshire
  • Harry Sunley

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Description

The church is aisleless with a 15thc. W tower and an essentially 12thc. nave and chancel. 12thc. sculpture is found on N and S doorways, on two windows in the chancel and one in the nave, and on the chancel arch and font.

History

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Windows

Exterior Decoration

Corbel tables, corbels

Interior Features

Arches

Chancel arch/Apse arches

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

There has clearly been some readjustment of the third order arch of the S doorway. VCH suggests that the jointing of the arch indicates there was a hood-mould, and a display in the church suggests that the two packing pieces on the E side of the arch are also given as evidence. In the author's opinion, more packing pieces would have been expected to replace a label. It seems more likely that the arch slipped, creating gaps that had to be packed.

The font is said to have been removed from the church in 1817 and used as a water-tub, and then as a flower pot at Ettington Hall! It was restored to Oxhill in 1879 (information from display inside church). Eve is "Very thin and pitiful" according to Pevsner.

Bibliography
VCH 5:126ff
Betty Smith, Oxhill, reprinted 1989