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St Denys

Northmoor

Oxfordshire

Early C13: mostly late C13 and early C14, except C15 west tower

Architectural Features

C13 chancel has offset corner buttresses

late C13 trefoiled lancets with hoods to north

south wall has 2 similar lancets, string course forming hood over C13 hollow-chamfered doorway and mid C13 two-light window of plate tracery

South transept has late C13 trefoiled lancet (west) and 2-light windows (east), and early C14 three-light reticulated windows (south). South wall of nave has late C13 Y-tracery window with trefoiled heads, west of C17 timber-framed and rendered porch with arched timber head to plank door

North transept has late C13 trefoil-headed 3-light window (east) and early C14 reticulated window (north). North wall of nave has two 2-light Y-tracery windows with cinquefoiled heads

West gable has offset corner buttresses and early C14 three-light window of intersecting and cusped tracery

C15 tower has trefoiled lights and 2-light square-headed belfry windows

Three late C13 trefoiled sedilia with hoods and jamb shafts

Fine late C17 communion rail with pierced scrolls of leaves and roses

Late C13 double-chamfered chancel arch, with moulded capitals to half-quatrefoil responds

North transept has late C16/C17 two-bay tie-beam roof with stop-chamfered purlins

South transept: fine early C14 crocketed canopy frames C20 statue of Virgin and Child

C17 parish chest in blocked south door of nave

Late C17 gallery at west end of nave has bolection-moulded panels and turned balusters

C12 tub font with carved leaf sprays

Nave windows have early C14 hollow-chamfered rere-arches with short jambs stopped on head corbels and fine naturalistic leaf capitals

C15 tie-beam roof, with arch braces stopped on shield and foliate capitals

Mid C19 benches, fittings and pulpit

C15 hollow-chamfered and casement-moulded archway to west tower

Monuments: ledger stones and C14 slab with cross set in chancel floor

also Richard Kent, d.1761 and family, a slate inscription slab set in white marble architectural frame with scrolled sides and figure weeping over urn set in open pediment

South transept has late C17 Baroque cartouche

late C17 ledger stone and defaced C14 cross slab set in floor

chamfered arches in north wall over fine late C14 stone effigies of Sir Thomas de la More and wife

Wall painting: of heraldic shields, 2 souls being raised to Heaven, and Christ's hand raised in blessing, in north-west corner of north transept

Stained glass: good chancel window of 1866 and south wall of nave, 1871

The shaft capitals in the nave are an important illustration of the mere naturalistic forms of leaf carving of mature early C14 Gothic. (Buildings of England: 0xfordshire, p.722

National Monuments Record

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