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St John the Baptist's Church, Mongewell 
Ruins of St John the Baptist parish church, Mongewell, from the southwestLocation in Oxfordshire
St John the Baptist's Church, MongewellCoordinates: 51°35′10″N 1°07′23″W / 51.586°N 1.123°W OS grid reference SU610877 Location Mongewell, Oxfordshire Country England Denomination Church of England Website Churches Conservation Trust History Dedication Saint John the Baptist Architecture Functional status Redundant (partly ruined) Heritage designation Grade II Designated 9 February 1959 Architect(s) Lewis Wyatt & possibly James Wyatt Architectural type Church Style Norman, Gothic Specifications Materials Flint with stone dressings
Brick tower. Tiled roofSt John the Baptist's Church, Mongewell, is a redundant Church of England parish church, now partly in ruins, in the hamlet of Mongewell, Oxfordshire, England. English Heritage has designated it a Grade II listed building,[1] and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[2] The ruins stand on the east bank of the River Thames, next to the former Carmel College, to the north of Mongewell Park, 2.5 miles (4 km) south of Wallingford, and near the The Ridgeway long-distance path.[2][3]
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History
The church dates probably from the 12th century.[1] It was remodelled in picturesque Gothick style for Rev Shute Barrington late in the 18th century.[2] Barrington was Bishop of Durham and, when he died in 1826, was buried in the family vault in the church.[4] The church was restored under the direction of the architect Lewis Wyatt in 1880.[1] It was designated a Grade II listed building on 9 February 1959.[1] The church was declared redundant on 1 July 1981 and was vested in the Churches Conservation Trust on 31 July 1985.[5] For access, the keyholder can be found nearby.[2]
Architecture
The church consists of a nave and a chancel with a west tower. It is built of flint with stone dressings. Brick buttresses support the nave walls. The tower is brick and the chancel roof is tiled. The nave has no roof. The lower part of the tower is round and the upper part is hexagonal with a battlemented parapet.[1] The chancel is in Norman style, and contains two 18th-century monuments. One of these consists of a tomb with the effigy of a man dressed in "Eastern costume" including a turban.[2]
See also
- List of churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in South East England
References
- ^ a b c d e "Former Church of St John the Baptist, Crowmarsh", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1059580, retrieved 18 April 2011
- ^ a b c d e Church of St John the Baptist, Mongewell, Oxfordshire, Churches Conservation Trust, http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches/Completelistofchurches/Church-of-St-John-the-Baptist-Mongewell-Oxfordshire/, retrieved 4 April 2011
- ^ Mongewell Park, Streetmap, http://streetmap.co.uk/grid/460733_187888_120, retrieved 4 April 2011
- ^ Varley, E.A. (2009) [2004], Barrington, Shute (1734–1826), , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, hosted at oxforddnb.com), http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1534?docPos=14, retrieved 4 April 2011 (Subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ^ (PDF) Diocese of Oxford: All Schemes, Church Commissioners/Statistics, Church of England, 2011, pp. 5–6, http://www.churchofengland.org/media/810796/oxford%20-%20all%20schemes.pdf, retrieved 4 April 2011
Further reading
- Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 711–712. ISBN 0 14 071045 0.
External links
Categories:- Grade II listed buildings in Oxfordshire
- Grade II listed churches
- Church of England churches in Oxfordshire
- Norman architecture
- Gothic architecture in England
- Churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust
- Church ruins
- Redundant churches
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