Easington, South Oxfordshire
Coordinates: 51°40′08″N 1°02′38″W / 51.669°N 1.044°W
Easington is a small village in the civil parish of Cuxham with Easington in South Oxfordshire. It is about 5.5 miles (9 km) north of Wallingford and about 6 miles (10 km) south of Thame.
Parish church
The Church of England parish church of Saint Peter was built in the 14th century. It consists of a continuous nave and chancel with no chancel arch between them. The chancel masonry is ashlar, noticeably better-dressed and more evenly coursed than that of the nave.
The church building includes a 12th-century Norman doorway re-used from an earlier church on the same site.[1] The font is tub-shaped, suggesting that it too is Norman.
The chancel windows are Perpendicular Gothic. The east window has ogee tracery and includes 14th century stained glass.[1] The piscina also is ogeed. Beside the east window on the east wall are the remains of a mediaeval wall painting.
The woodwork of the pulpit and reading desk are Jacobean items carved in the 17th century. The pulpit bears the date 1633 but Sherwood and Pevsner suggest that it was assembled in the 19th century from Jacobean materials.[1]
St. Peter's is a Grade II* listed building.[2]
Gallery
St. Peter's parish church: porch with Norman doorway
St. Peter's parish church: east window of chancel
St. Peter's parish church: piscina
St. Peter's parish church: remains of wall painting in chancel
St. Peter's parish church: Jacobean pulpit
St. Peter's parish church: Jacobean reading desk
Notes
- 1 2 3 Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 591.
- ↑ "Church of St Peter". National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
Sources
- Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 591. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
External links
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