Building record 0292000000 - ST GILES' CHURCH, PITCHCOTT

Summary

Former medieval and post-medieval parish church, now a house.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II*) 1117813: CHURCH OF ST. GILES (DBC2050)

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Type and Period (2)

  • (Former Type) PARISH CHURCH (12th Century to Modern - 1100 AD? to 1999 AD)
  • HOUSE (20th Century - 1900 AD to 1999 AD)

Description

Dimensions - Length 0024 m Width 0007
PLAIN EDIFICE CHIEFLY IN EARLY ENGLISH STYLE (B2).
NAVE POSS C12 BUT CHANCEL REBUILT C13. DOORWAYS & WINDOWS INSERTED C14 & C15.TOWER: LOWER STAGE C15; UPPER STAGE C16. C19 N VESTRY ADDED & WHOLE BUILDING RESTORED (B3).
LAST SERVICE OCT 1974 (B6).
Grade II+. Parish church, now disused. Nave probably C12, C13 chancel, C14 and C15 fenestration, tower C15 and 16. Porchrebuilt 1662, remainder much restored 1864. Coursed rubble stone, tiled roofs. W. tower has plinth, diagonal buttresses, plain parapet, and single openings to bell-chamber with cusped rectangular heads. C15 W. doorway and window, both restored, the doorway with 4-centred arch and hoodmould, the window with 2 traceried lights. Nave has 2 bays of 2-light windows with cusped flat heads, now mostly C19, and central N. and S. doorways with 2-centred chamfered arches. N. doorway is blocked; S. door has cusped niche above and gabled porch with shallow chamfered arch. Chancel has diagonal buttresses, 2 restored lancets and moulded doorway to S., C19 vestry to north, and 3-light traceried E. window with small cusped roundel above. Interior: double hollow-chamfered arch to tower. C19 chancel arch on corbel columns with carved foliage caps and bases. N. wall of chancel has rectangular recess, S. wall has cusped piscina. C19 roofs and glass in E. window. C13 moulded stone book- rest has been moved to Oving church. Other fittings have been sold and dispersed. Building due to be converted to house at time of listing. RCHM II p. 235-6 (B8).
Buildings report held at NMR (B9)
A collection of sketches of Buckinghamshire churches done by Charlotte Pigott, wife of George Pigott, squire of Doddershall in Quainton parish, in the early 1840s (B10)

Sources (12)

  • ---SBC20710 Aerial Photograph: Michael Farley. 2001. 2001 oblique AP by Mike Farley. SP77602030. Yes.
  • ---SBC20711 Aerial Photograph: Michael Farley. 2001. 2001 oblique AP by Mike Farley. SP77602030. Yes.
  • <1>SBC7544 Bibliographic reference: LIPSCOMB 1 PP386-388.
  • <2>SBC14219 Bibliographic reference: SHEAHAN P414.
  • <3>SBC13079 Bibliographic reference: RCHM BUCKS 2 PP235-236.
  • <4>SBC16231 Bibliographic reference: VCH BUCKS 4 PP90-91.
  • <5>SBC10378 Map: Ordnance Survey. 1958. OS 1958 1:10560 MAP. 1:10,560.
  • <6>SBC7353 Bibliographic reference: LAWRENCE REV P A, JAN 1978.
  • <7>SBC13715 Bibliographic reference: REPORT BY COUNCIL FOR PLACES OF WORSHIP,SEPT 1979 (FILED)..
  • <8>SBC19269 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. p20.
  • <9>SBC23358 Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2006. NMR Buildings Reports. BF051373.
  • <10>SBC23373 Article in serial: Elliott Viney. 1991. Bucks Churches in the Eighteen-Forties. Plate 13b, p81.

Location

Grid reference SP 77536 20418 (point) (Exact)
Civil Parish PITCHCOTT, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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  • Event - Survey: Site visit (EBC13595)

Record last edited

Aug 3 2015 2:46PM

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