Ascott-under-Wychwood Holy Trinity Church
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Ascott-under-Wychwood Holy Trinity Church
Image: © Nick Barber Taken: 4 Sep 2018
Parish Church. Late C12, altered C14 and restored 1857 by Street. Built of rubble with Cotswold stone roofs. Two-bay chancel, 3-bay nave with low north aisle, 3 stage west tower with plain parapet. Gabled south porch and south transept; vestry to north-east (1857-9). Two lower stages of tower and the side windows of chancel are circa 1200 lancets, latter in wide reveals, nave and north transept probably of the same period but with C14 windows of ogee pattern, a north door of that period in the aisle and a late C14 stepped 3-light lancet with cusped heads and nave (restored). Reticulated east window (possibly by Street). Paired C15 lancets to upper stages of tower and crenellation. Square-headed 2-light windows with stilted-arch lights to east and south walls of south transept. The south porch has Norman impost capitals and a chamfered archway with pyramidal steps; inner arch of early C13. Wooden priest's door with shouldered lintel. (britishlistedbuildings.co.uk)
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Image Location
Latitude
51.865178
Longitude
-1.565729