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Holy Cross

Holy Cross

Shipton-on-Cherwell

Oxfordshire

To north side are similar windows flanking early C14 reset Decorated porch, which has hood mould with rosettes and unusually primitive head corbels over hollow-chamfered pointed-arched doorway with rosettes

Architectural Features

Three-stage west tower has hood moulds over cinquefoiled windows and battlemented parapet with corner gargoyles

Chancel has mid C19 Minton tile floor, and early C14 reset cinquefoiled tomb recess

Nave has wood traceried pulpit set on stone base, C18 parish chest, C11 tub font reset on late C19 piers and C19 west door

Late C19 stained glass throughout

Memorials: in chancel are wall tablets to John Rathbone, d.1613, set in coloured moulded architrave, Stephen Pomfrett, d.1713, with carved stall and hourglass set above roundel , and Gothic-style memorial to William Turner

Pictures of church before restoration show that chancel had north chapel (whence tomb recess was moved) and that present C14 porch lay to south