13th C. – St. Mary’s Church, Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire
The church is in the middle of the village overlooking the village green and is immediately visible from the main road.
The church is in the middle of the village overlooking the village green and is immediately visible from the main road.
A church constructed over several centuries. What is not the transepts is the earliest part, dating from c1250; the main body of the church and tower dates from the early 14th century;
Perspective View including details of house built circa 1575 by William Houghton. Published in The Building News,
Grade I Listed, Elizabethan townhouse was built in the late 1590s for Sir Peter Buck, who was Clerk of the Cheque at Chatham’s Royal Dockyard and Mayor of Medway.
Built in the 17th century for Sir George Pratt, Coleshill was the first house to be built for a ‘minor’ gentleman in the classical manner.
Shipton Court on the south side of the village was built for the Lacy family in 1603. It was bought and remodelled in 1663 by the Reade family,
Tom Tower is a bell tower and the main entrance of Christ Church College. This square tower with an octagonal lantern and facetted ogee dome was designed by Christopher Wren and built 1681–82.
Perspective view including ground plan of new Chancel Vestry & Organ Chamber. Now converted for living accommodation.
It was at The Grange that Pugin produced much of his finest work, sitting in his library high on the chalk cliffs overlooking the Goodwin Sands and working at prodigious speed.
The existing Chapel is the third on the site. The first was under construction in 1328,