Northmoor,
Oxfordshire - St Denis Church
14th century
Click on photos to enlarge.
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 |

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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Font. Norman, tub-shaped, carved
with seven-stemmed flower. |
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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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