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The Holy Rood

Cuxham

Oxfordshire

Early C12, early C14 and mid C18 alterations

Architectural Features

gabled late C19 tile roof, except old tiles on part of nave roof and pyramidal old tile tower roof

Nave has early C14 two-light ogee-headed windows and two C18 memorial tablets to north, and 2 mid C18 2-light round-arched brick-mullioned windows to south

West tower has string-course, round-headed lancets and rebuilt early C12 doorway, with rebuilt arch, interlace capitals set on spiral-fluted jamb shafts and stones at base of jambs with scrolled carvings: C18 studded door

Rebuilt round-arched west doorway has some early C12 billet-carved voussoirs: late C19 double-leaf doors

Nave has C17 panelled pulpit reset on late C19 base and 13 rows of early C18 pews, with bolection panelled rear of south wall

Floor tablet inscribed M.B./1688, and brass to John Gregory, d.1501, with 2 wives and children

late C19 font

early C19 wall monument in memory of Mary Gregory, d. 1688, and two C19 wall tablets

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