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All Saints

All Saints

Hook Norton

Oxfordshire

Saxon C11 nave with C12 features, C12 chancel long demolished

Architectural Features

Rendered rubble flint with stone dressings, colourwashed, old plain tile roof and weatherboarded bellcote

E end probably altered C17 when chancel demolished, wall built under chancel arch with 3-light ovolo mullioned window

Above arch 2 restored late C12 painted lancets, probably reset from chancel

E of centre is late C12 squareheaded light with rebate

W of centre similar squareheaded doorway with chamfer and C17 door

High set to W behind glazed sheet is roundheaded Saxon window minus some dressings

On S to E large C13 pointed lancet with chamfer and rebate for timber frame

To E of centre, opposite other, is squareheaded late C12 light

To W of centre is late C12 roundheaded door of chamfered order with label and imposts

W end has C14 pointed 2-light trefoiled window with quatrefoil over

E wall has C12 pointed chancel arch, probably of 2 orders, inner has shafts with small scalloped capitals, and abaci hacked off

On S side of arch small roundheaded niche or possible reset C12 window

SE C13 lancet has wide splay

C19 SW window has beside blocked Saxon window matching that to N. Pointed splayed rear arch of W window

C19 font