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Church Micro 3223…Little Oakley Traditional Geocache

Hidden : 12/30/2012
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125ml Camo pot

St Peter's Church, Little Oakley


 

At the far end of the village from the A43, and on the right, is the church of St Peter’s. The earliest parts are 13 century and the tower is 15 century. Inside the church there are fragments of medieval wall painting and some 16 and 17 century monuments to members of the Montagu family. The church was restored during the 1860’s.
 
Now, only a small part is occasionally used for services, otherwise it is redundant. It has also been used by the Orion Trust as a training centre for stonemasons.

To the left of the church is, what was orriginally the Manor House, and is now Manor Farm. The building is 16 century and has stone mullioned windows. A datestone indicates rebuilding in 1721. It has a chimney piece which is said to have come from Boughton House, and a window which is keyhole shaped and is believed to have originated from Pipewell Abbey after it was dissolved.

Parish church, now partly studio. C13 and C14, tower probably C15, restored by Slater and Carpenter 1867. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, low-pitched nave and aisle roofs probably of lead, other roofs of Collyweston slates. West tower, aisled nave with south porch, chancel, north-east vestry.
4-stage, west tower has plinth clasping buttresses, castellated parapet and pyramidal-roof. 2-light traceried bell-openings with transom. West side also has double board doors in arched opening with hood mould, a 2-light traceried depressed-arched window to first stage, and 2 tiny stair
lights.
South side also has chamfered loop light. Nave and aisles have plain parapets, clerestory of 3 square-headed, 2-light windows with ogee-headed lights and hood moulds. South side: aisle has diagonal buttresses. Porch with parapet gable
has arched opening of 2 orders with hood mould enclosing arched entrance with C19 board door on decorative hinges.
3-light rectangular window to right has arched lights and hood mould with head stops. West end of aisle has similar 2-light
windowk with ogee-headed lights. East end of aisle has 3-light Decorated window with large head filled with flowing tracery.
South-east angle of nave parapet has louvred chimney turret.
Chancel: east end has 3 lancets and round window with plate tracery trefoil above. Band at cill level. South side has 2
lancets (western one above a 2-light "low-side" window) and a 2-light Perpendicular window. North side of chancel has one
lancet. C19 north-east vestry picks up detail from east end and from south aisle chimney. North aisle: diagonal buttresses. East end of aisle has 2-light square headed window with arched lights, hood-mould and head stops. Similar window in north side, also arched entrance with hood-mould and head-stops, and C19 board door on decorative hinges. West end of aisle has cusped lancet. Interior: 3-bay nave arcade on quatrefoil piers with similar but not identical capitals.
Arches of 2 orders - simply chamfered to north-west arch, others sunk convex chamfers. Hood moulds with heads. Tall chamfered tower arch on semi-cylindical responds with polygonal capitals. Roof, probably C19, arch braced from head corbels to tie-beam, and traceried. Nave walls "scraped" except above chancel arch where fragments of wall-painting survive. Top of rood stair visible, but door way broken away.
North aisle retains arched entrance to newel stair with carved head above.Chancel: east end shafted, with stiff-leaf capitals
and brackets for statues either side. Arch-braced roof on angel corbels, all C19. Two good architectural monuments: to
William Montagu, d.1620, and to anther member of the Montagu family but uninscribed c.1575. C19 altar rail and pews in
chancel. C19 pulpit with "Feed my sheep" relief, in nave. Font removed. Chancel, tower and aisles divided from nave by C20
timber and glass screens.
(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: pp294-5).
 
 

“If anybody would like to expand to this series please do, I would just ask that you could let Sadexploration know first so he can keep track of the Church numbers and names to avoid duplication. There is also a Church Micro Stats page found via the Bookmark list”

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)