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St James

Rousham

Oxfordshire

Late C12, enlarged in early C14 and with late C15 alterations

Architectural Features

early C13 west tower

North side of nave has 2 offset buttresses, a late C13 two-light trefoil-headed window set in early C13 blocked archway, a C15 cinquefoiled 2-light clerestory window, a blocked C17 chamfered Tudor-arched doorway, and 2 adjoining C15 two-light transomed and cinquefoiled windows

South aisle has label moulds over early C14 three-light trefoiled window and a C15 two-light cinquefoiled window, an early C14 trefoiled lancet and 2-light Decorated west window

Gabled mid C19 south porch has head of C13 lancet and a C14 sexfoiled light reset as side lights: hood mould over early C14 pointed moulded south door

C14 cinquefoiled 2-light clerestory windows

Early/mid C13 three-stage west tower has small corner buttresses, a C14 hollow-moulded west door, pointed lancets, 2-light round-headed belfry windows and crenellated parapet of c.1860

early C14 Decorated piscina

Late C12 pointed and roll-moulded chancel arch has carved star-in-square pattern to hood mould and trumpet-scalloped respond to east

Late C12 three-bay nave arcade, with pointed arches and beaded capital to centre and early C14 bay to west

Part of rood stairs remain, adjoining C15 traceried and panelled screen, with part of rood loft remaining, to south chapel

Chapel has early C14 ogee-headed piscina and organ case by Kitchen of Winchester (1903) which has Gothic pinnacles and reused late C17 balusters and pew backs

Late C17 polygonal pulpit and pews with Jacobean-style carvings to panels

C13 double-chamfered tower arch

Memorials: C18 hatchment of arms beneath clerestory

architectural frame to mid C18 monument to south aisle erected c.1758 by Charles Cottrell-Dormer

kneeling figures of John Dormer (d.1581) and wife brought from Steeple Barton Church in 1851 and reset in niche in south chapel

C17 and C18 memorial slabs with medallion portraits of Robert Grovelier, Rector, d.1720 and Reverend R. Burton, d.1730

Stained glass: late C19

west window of south aisle has C16 and C17 glass from Sesswell's Barton, on site of Barton Abbey (q.v.), reset as memorial to General James Dormer in 1742

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