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St Mary, Westwell, Oxfordshire

Location
(51°47′20″N, 1°40′41″W)
Westwell
SP 223 101
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Oxfordshire
now Oxfordshire
  • John Blair
  • Sarah Blair

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Description

St Mary's is a small two-cell church. The nave is 12thc. and the south porch a later medieval addition, but the nave was lengthened westwards in the 19thc and given a a timber bell-turret towards the west end. The chancel has 13thc. windows, but some or all of the corbel-table is 12thc.

History

Given by the de Hastings family to the Hospitallers of Quenington [date unknown]. A papal composition of a dispute about the advowson in 1197 is printed in Papal Decretals of the Diocese of Lincoln, L.R.S. 47, No. XXIV.

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Exterior Decoration

Corbel tables, corbels

Interior Features

Arches

Chancel arch/Apse arches

Interior Decoration

Miscellaneous

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

The chancel arch is probably from the same workshop as the chancel arch at Kencot. The font is clearly from the same workshop as the more elaborate version at Broadwell.

Bibliography
A.S.T. Fisher, Westwell, Oxfordshire, n.p., 1972, 8-12. Discusses the history and fabric of the church, with some refs. to parallels for the chip-carving.
N. Pevsner and J. Sherwood, The Buildings of England. Oxfordshire, London, 1974, 834f.