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Northmoor,  Oxfordshire  -  St Denis Church
14th century

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Notes in italics from Oxfordshire by Jennifer Sherwood and Nikolaus Pevsner (1974) Yale University Press, New Haven and London.



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Chancel and north transept

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Chancel and south transept 

An almost unaltered small cruciform church of the early C14 with a C15 W tower.
In the N transept ... N window with reticulated tracery, E window of three trefoiled lancets under one head.
In S transept ... E window cusped Y-tracery.

In the chancel two trefoiled lancets in both side walls, and a third window on the S with plate tracery.

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Nave, north side.
The side windows of the nave have cusped Y-tracery.


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Nave W window of three lights with cusped intersecting of the early C14. The tower was built over the W bay of the nave in the C15.
West gallery 1693.


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Nave windows: Unusual short jamb shafts stopped on head-corbels, the capitals, with their big flat leaves in an attempt to imitate oak, chestnut, and beech, contrasting with the stylized foliage of the C13.


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Chancel arch of two hollow-chamfered orders with responds of half-quatrefoil section. Nailhead in the capital of the N respond.

The E window, of three graduated trefoiled lights under one head, with plain circles over the two short lancets, and the S window are closer to E.E. and suggest that the chancel was built first.


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The sedilia are also E.E. in style, with three trefoiled openings under round heads. Trefoiled piscina recess beside them.


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South transept.
S window has reticulated tracery
Canopied Perp image niche.


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Stone effigy of Sir Thomas de la More ... late C14, in the N transept.

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S of the church Rectory Farm ... The house is C16. ... The irregularly spaced windows have arched lights under square hoods. Three-storey bay-window in the E wing. The date 1629 over the entrance records alterations. 

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