St Mary, Adderbury
St Mary, Adderbury
The Church of St Mary on Mill Lane and the High Street, Adderbury, Oxfordshire, is a Grade I cruciform parish church in the Diocese of Oxford, with a Perpendicular chancel built for New College.
- Location
- Adderbury, Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Oxfordshire
- City / town
- Adderbury
- Address
- Mill Lane, Adderbury, Oxfordshire, OX17 3LP
- Postcode
- OX17 3LP
- Built
- Early C13 and early C14; chancel and vestry 1409–19; restorations c.1831, c.1866 and 1886
- Architect
- Richard Winchcombe (chancel 1409–19); J. C. Buckler (chancel c.1831); Sir G. G. Scott (nave c.1866); J. O. Scott (1886)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Mary
- Diocese
- Oxford
- Parish
- Adderbury
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Decorated and Perpendicular
- Materials
- Marlstone rubble and ashlar with limestone-ashlar dressings; lead roofs
- Grid reference
- SP 471 354
- Opening hours
- Open daily, dawn to dusk.
- Access
- Accessible toilets nearby. Level access to the main areas
Overview
Historic England records early thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century fabric; a chancel and vestry of 1409–19 by Richard Winchcombe for New College, Oxford; chancel restoration about 1831 by J. C. Buckler; nave restoration about 1866 by Sir George Gilbert Scott; and further work in 1886 by John Oldrid Scott. Materials are marlstone rubble and ashlar with limestone dressings and lead roofs. Winchcombe’s three-bay ashlar chancel has Perpendicular windows, crocketed pinnacles and a two-storey vestry; the head of William of Wykeham and the arms of New College sit above the east window. The fourteenth-century aisles carry carved friezes of grotesques, animals and musicians. A fifteenth-century rood screen was restored and given a loft by Scott. Listed Grade I on 8 December 1955 (NHLE 1200012).
Building accounts survive for the New College chancel. The parish is Adderbury, in the Deddington deanery.