Cuxham

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Cuxham
Oxfordshire
Cuxham HolyRood exterior.JPG
Holy Rood parish church
Location
Grid reference: SU6695
Location: 51°39’7"N, 1°2’17"W
Data
Post town: Watlington
Postcode: OX49
Dialling code: 01491
Local Government
Council: South Oxfordshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
Henley

Cuxham is a village and ancient parish in the Ewelme Hundred of Oxfordshire. It is about 5½ miles north of Wallingford and about six miles south of Thame.

Parish church

The Church of England parish church of the Holy Rood has a Norman bell tower.[1] The Gothic windows on the north side of the nave were inserted in the 14th century and some of the windows in the tower were added in the 15th century.[2] The windows on the south side of the nave were probably inserted in the 17th century and the church was heavily restored in the 18th century.[2] The Gothic Revival architect C.C. Rolfe rebuilt the chancel in 1895.[2]

The Rectory is Georgian and was built about 1800.[2] Since 1983 Holy Rood has been part of a united benefice with Easington, Brightwell Baldwin and Ewelme.[3]

Mills

The Domesday Book of 1086 recorded three watermills at Cuxham.[4]

The present Cuxham Mill was built in about the middle of the 18th century on the site of one of those recorded in the Domesday Book.[4] It was held by the Benedictine Wallingford Priory before Merton College, Oxford acquired the Manor of Cuxham in about 1268–71.[4]

In the Middle Ages, Cutt Mill was the manorial corn mill.[5] The present mill on the site was built in the middle of the 18th century.[5]

Amenities

The Half Moon public house was built in the 17th century and extended in the 18th.[6] It is built of chalk rubble with brick quoins.[6] Recently modernised, it is now a pizzeria and gastropub.[7]

References

  1. Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 567.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 568.
  3. Brightwell Baldwin: church
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 National Heritage List 1182026: Cuxham Mill
  5. 5.0 5.1 National Heritage List 1059752: Cutt Mill
  6. 6.0 6.1 National Heritage List 1059746: The Half Moon Public House
  7. The Half Moon at Cuxham

Sources and further reading

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  • Harvey, P.D.A. (1965). An Oxfordshire Village: Cuxham 1240 to 1400. Oxford Historical Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
  • Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 567–568. ISBN 978-0-14-071045-8. 
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