At the meeting of Council on 14th October a total sum £127,000 was awarded to 12 churches.
The David Booth Award recipient was St Mary at Longworth.
St Mary, Longworth (Grade I) received a David Booth Award of £35,000 for essential tower works and rehanging of bells
This church has its origins in the 13th century church and over the centuries has been subject to numerous additions and alterations. It is claimed that the chancel screen was a gift from Archbishop Laud, when he was chancellor of Oxford University from 1629-1633. Other features of note include some carved medieval heads decorating the nave arches.
SS Mary and John, Cowley (Grade II) received a grant of £25,000 for essential tower repairs.
This imposing Gothic revival church was bult in 1875-83 to a design by A Mardon Mowbray. The tower was added in 1892-3 and the vestry and church rooms in 1911-12. The church contains a good collection of stained glass.
St Mary, Glympton (Grade II) received a grant of £25,000 for roof repairs
This church is Norman in origin but was significantly altered by G E Street in the 19th century.
All Saints, Sutton Courtenay (Grade I) received a grant of £15,000 for tower repairs
A church with work of many different periods, from the Norman tower to a 20th-century trompe-l’oeil portrait. There is a charming two-storied Tudor south porch, made of red brick. The Liberal Prime Minister H. H. Asquith and the writer George Orwell are buried in the graveyard.
St Mary, Barton-Headington received a grant of £13,500 for interior refurbishments
Built in 1958 to a design by N F Cachemaille-Day, the church is an example of utilitarian postwar mid-century design.
St Andrew, Shrivenham (Grade I) received a grant of £3,000 for replacement of boiler
The church was rebuilt in the 17th century with the new additions on either side of the original 15th century tower. There are some good monuments to the Barrington family and a fine perspective pulpit and tester from the 17th century.
St Laurence, Wesst Challow (Grade II*) received a grant of £2,000 for external repairs and rehanging of bells
Built in the 12th century the church contains the second oldest working bells in Oxfordshire, one bears the name and date of the maker Paul the Potter 1283.
St James, Denchworth (Grade II*) received a grant of £1,000 for repairs to the belfry
The church has its origins in the 12th century and was subject to 19th century restoration by G E Street, although it retained its medieval character.
Holy Ascension, Littleworth (Grade II) received a Feasibility grant of £1,500 to explore a permanent reordering of the building.
Built in 1839 to a two-cell design by H J Underwood for Edward Pusey with chancel and vestry added in 1876. The roof of the nave is a fine hammer-beam construction with decorative shields at the ends of the beams, each of which has a symbol of Christ
St Mary, Chesterton (Grade II*) received a grant of £1,000 for repairs to its curtilage wall
The oldest part of the church is a 12th-century arcade of three arches between the nave and the north aisle. The font is also believed to be from the same period.
St Mary, Little Coxwell (Grade II*) received an Emergency grant of £3,000 for urgent roof and stonework repairs.
Built in the 12th century by the Monks of Beaulieu Abbey as a Chapel of Ease, it contains a number of features of historical and architectural interest,
Wallingford Baptist Church received a Supplementary grant of £2,000 in light of increased costs for repairs to the roof
Founded in 1794 this plain rectangular chapel was given a Georgian front in 1821 and was further extended in 1994.