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All Saints

All Saints

Wytham

Oxfordshire

Early C14 and C15: whollyrebuilt 1811 for the 5th Earl of Abingdon

Architectural Features

Early C14 Curvilinear 2-light east window: east gable also has early C19 trefoiled light above early C16 round-headed light, and offset corner buttresses

2-bay south wall of chancel has C15 cinquefoil-headed lights

3-bay south wall of nave has early C14 two-light Decorated windows with unusual radiating mouchettes in head: north wall of nave has early C16 round-headed light, and early C14 two-light Decorated window to east of early C17 ashlar porch which has trefoiled spandrels to doorway and cinquefoil-headed side lights: C14 two-centred north doorway frames early C19 panelled and ribbed door

North aisle has early C16 2-light windows in end walls

Tower: C15-style door with scrolled ends to label mould

late C15 two-light round-headed window and early C19 two-light window

Early C17 communion table

Early C19 Gothick pulpit and octagonal font on thin stem

Early C19 hammer-beam roof: nave roof rests on early C14 head corbels, one of which shows a man playing bagpipes

Memorials: late C17 and C18 plain lozenge-shaped floor slabs

Reset brass of William de Wytham (d.1406) and wife with 3 shields reset on early C19 inscription

Three C17 wall tablets in chancel inscribed 1634/AP and 1624/TP set in heart, and to John Paynton, 1612

Stained glass: very fine C18 Adoration of the Shepherds in east window

Early C16 Flemish glass and C16 heraldic glass in south chancel windows

The rebuilt church incorporated material from Cumnor Place (demolished 1811), namely the early C14 east window and nave windows: the north door, head corbels and other details were re-used from the original church

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