St Andrew, Wheatfield
St Andrew, Wheatfield
St Andrew’s is a Grade I parish church in parkland at Wheatfield, South Oxfordshire, in the Diocese of Oxford. The neighbouring manor house burned down in 1814; the church stands alone among the trees.
- Location
- Wheatfield, Oxfordshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Oxfordshire
- City / town
- Wheatfield
- Address
- Wheatfield, Oxfordshire, OX9 7EN
- Postcode
- OX9 7EN
- Built
- C14; remodelled c.1730
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Andrew
- Diocese
- Oxford
- Parish
- Wheatfield
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Georgian remodelled medieval
- Materials
- Render on stone rubble with stone dressings; old plain-tile roof; wood bellcote
- Grid reference
- SU 688 992
- Opening hours
- Opening times vary, please contact us.
- Access
- No electricity or running water; lighting by candles on eighteenth-century brackets.
Overview
Historic England records a fourteenth-century church restored and remodelled about 1730 for the Rudge family: render on stone rubble with stone dressings, an old plain-tile roof and a timber ridge bellcote. The plan is a three-bay nave, two-bay chancel and west porch. Blocked fourteenth-century doorways remain on both sides of the nave. Eighteenth-century round-headed windows light nave and chancel; the east end has a Venetian window. The interior keeps a fourteenth-century three-bay king-post nave roof and a plaster vault to the chancel.
Early eighteenth-century fittings include the altar table and rail, box pews (the family pew with pierced scroll-work), pulpit with tester, reading desk, and a stone font on a vase baluster. A monument to John Rudge of about 1730 is by Peter Scheemakers. The west window has eighteenth-century armorial glass; the east window is by Morris and Co. (listing c.1898; Oxfordshire Historic Churches Trust also cites 1907). The church has no tower, electricity or running water. A benefice church existed by 1202.