| All Saints Church, Shirburn | |
All Saints Church, Shirburn, from the south
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All Saints Church, Shirburn
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| OS grid reference | SU 696 959 |
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| Location | Shirburn, Oxfordshire |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Website | Churches Conservation Trust |
| Architecture | |
| Functional status | Redundant |
| Heritage designation | Grade II |
| Designated | 18 July 1963 |
| Architect(s) | T. H. Wyatt (1876 restoration) |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Norman, Gothic, Georgian, Gothic Revival |
| Completed | 1876 |
| Specifications | |
| Materials | Rendered chalk and flint Brick north transept Tiled roofs |
All Saints Church, Shirburn, is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Shirburn, Oxfordshire, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building,[1] and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[2] The church stands at the west end of the village, immediately to the south of Shirburn Castle, the seat of the Earls of Macclesfield since 1715.[2][3] The north chapel of the church is the mausoleum of the Parker family, Earls of Macclesfield.[2]
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The church dates from the late 11th or early 12th century. Additions and alterations were made in the 13th and 14th centuries.[1] Further alterations took place in the 18th century, when the top stage was added to the tower, and in the early part of the 19th century, when a north transept was added "as a family pew for the Earl of Macclesfield".[4] The church was restored and largely rebuilt in 1876 by T. H. Wyatt.[1] It was declared redundant in 1995 and vested in the Churches Conservation Trust.[5]
Most of the church is constructed in rendered chalk and flint rubble, and the north transept is in brick. The roofs are tiled. Its plan is cruciform.[1] It consists of a nave with north and south aisles, north and south transepts, a south porch, a chancel with an organ chamber and a vestry to its north, and a west tower. To the south of the tower is a 19th-century circular staircase. On the north side of the tower is a two-light window which is probably Norman.[4] The top stage of the tower is Georgian in style.[1] Above the medieval west window in the bottom stage of the tower is a re-set Norman tympanum decorated with a figure-of-eight pattern. In the corresponding position inside the tower is a re-set Norman lintel, decorated with stars, beast heads and foliage. These were placed here in the 1876 restoration.[6] The dates of the windows around the church spread from the 12th to the 19th century.[1]
Inside the church are two 13th-century three-bay arcades between the nave and the aisles, and a two-bay arcade between the chancel and the north chapel. In the chancel and the transepts are memorials to the Chamberlain and Macclesfield families, and others. The south transept contains a 14th-century piscina, and in the nave is a 13th-century font with an 18th-century cover.[1] The stained glass in the east window is by Ward and Hughes.[4] The single-manual organ was made in the 1880s by Gray and Davison.[7]