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The Holy Rood

Woodeaton

Oxfordshire

Tower C14

Architectural Features

C13 chancel has, to north, 2 lancets and blocked round-headed doorway

to south, one small lancet remains beside a C13 priests door with 2 orders of roll moulding, and to right is a C15 window of 2 cinquefoil lights under a label

Nave has, to south, 2 trefoil-headed lancets and a 2-light window converted, in the C15, to a tall mullioned and transomed window

Small C17 porch with an old studded door shelters a Decorated doorway with panelled doors

The gable is built up to form the west wall of the C14 internal tower which has arched traceried mullioned and transomed belfry openings below a crenellated and pinnacled parapet

chancel arch is C14

Nave roof has remains of C13 coupled-rafter roof, at east end, including a tie beam with a rare painted doom inscription

rest of nave roof is probably C14 with arched windbraces to the lower purlins

Wall paintings include a large early C14 St

Christopher, with Norman-French inscription, over the blocked north door, and contemporary masonry decoration in red over much of the nave walls

Fittings include C15 benches with 4 fleur-de-lys poppy heads in the nave and 4 more-elaborate bench ends in the chancel

early C16 screen with painted linenfold panelling and tracery

Monuments include a marble wall memorial to Anne Nourse, died 1669 with Corinthian pilasters and a swan-necked pediment

C17 ledgers

5 late C18/early C19 hatchments of members of the Weyland family. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.V, pp.316-7

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