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Middleton Stoney

Oxfordshire

Mid C12, late C12, early C13, C14 and C15

Architectural Features

Mid C12 slated chancel has a string course, ornamented with dogtooth, and retains a round-headed lancet to north

to south is a 3-light Decorated window, and to east a 5-light window with tracery by Teulon in a C14 opening with head stops to the hood

South aisle, with a deep moulded parapet, has 2 square-headed 3-light windows (one a restoration). The large porch with a similar parapet has a late-C12 entrance arch with engaged shafts carrying a heavy roll moulding

the large plank door is ancient, and the porch shelters a fine mid C12 doorway, richly ornamented with chevron and with a carved tympanum

Rebuilt north aisle has a re-used late C12 doorway with engaged shafts and early stiff-leaf capitals

C15 clerestory has square-headed, 2-light, traceried windows

West tower was rebuilt by Teulon retaining lancets at the third stage and the early-C13 arcaded fourth stage incorporating bell-chamber openings

Interior: chancel is internally C19 with an elaborate stone, marble and tile reredos plus a traceried double piscina

South aisle has a 2-bay C14 arcade, with an octagonal column and moulded capital, plus an unmoulded pointed arch to east

Arcaded oak chancel furnishings plus low stone screen and pulpit are by Street

C14 octagonal font, carved with window tracery and considerably cut down, stands on an octagonal stem carved with a long inscription beginning "THIS FONTE CAME/FROM THE KINGS/CHAPEL IN ISLIPP..." and claiming that Edward the Confessor was baptised in it

Monuments in the chancel include 2 Baroque cartouches commemorating members of the Offley family, and a brass to Elizabeth Harman (died 1607). The Jersey Mausoleum contains elaborate late-C18 and C19 marble memorials, and has painted heraldry on the walls and ceiling plus a patterned marble floor. (V.C.H.

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