St Michael

Uncoursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings: squared masonry blocks to C12 tower and C15 clerestory

South transept of c.1300 has reticulated 3-light south window, 2-light curvilinear east window and unusual west window with triangular head and lozenge tracery (see Church of St. Lawrence, North Hinksey (q.v.)). South wall of nave: tall late C13 transomed 2-light window lies west of recessed section of wall which has late C12 corbel table with anthropomorphic heads and stone lintel over late Saxon doorway: clerestory has one C15 two-light cinquefoil-headed window and late C14 two-light trefoil-headed window: parapet has corbel table with fleuron frieze, and is swept round east gable of nave to north clerestory, which has three C15 two-light ogee-headed windows and one early C16 two-light round-headed window

Early C14 north aisle has two 2-light reticulated windows flanking late C19 stone porch: pointed and hollow-chamfered doorway frames C14 door: door made of lapped planks to front and crossed battens dovetailed into outer edge to rear, with scrolled hinges and iron-twist knocker

Late C12 tower of 3 stages marked by string courses: pointed lancet over Transitional doorway with roll-moulded arch set on one order of shafts with plain abaci: Transitional belfry windows with stone-slate louvres and continuous linking hood moulds: late C12 corbel table with gargoyles and parapet

C15 bench ends have poppyheads carved with monsters, chameleons and the Emblems of Christ's Passion

Early C17 chancel rail with turned balusters

C15 two-bay waggon roof has moulded cornice and tie beams with angel corbels

Transitional (probably early C13) chancel arch with ballflower-carved and scalloped corbels

Nave: fine Jacobean 2-decker pulpit and Clerk's Stall-cum-Lectern with relief carving

Flamboyant style late C19 font at west end

C15 five-bay cambered tie-beam roof supported by arch braces with quatrefoil spandrels springing from reset late C12 head corbels

Late C13 four-bay north arcade: hood moulds with face-mask and leaf-paterae stops over chamfered pointed arches set on circular and octagonal piers with octagonal abaci

North aisle has C15 lean-to roof with moulded and quartered beams supported by thin arch braces springing from reset late C12 head corbels: some C18 panelling, late C17 communion table and early C14 piscina

C17 parish chest and 2-bay queen-post roof

South transept was chantry chapel of Abingdon Abbey: 2 Decorated tomb recesses have cinquefoiled arches with ballflower carving, and 2 coffin lids carved with floreated crosses

Late C12 Transitional arch to west tower: triple roll-moulded pointed arch set on shafts of 3 orders with scalloped capitals

Monuments: Anthony Forster, d.1572 and wife Anne d.1599, of Purbeck marble: Gothic-style tomb chest and Gothic carved canopy with Tudor-flower cresting supported by unfluted Ionic columns: carved back-plate has brasses of Forster and his wife set out over long Latin elegy to Forster, who was involved with the death of Amy Robsart at Cumnor Place

C17 ledger stones set in nave floor

Wall brass in nave to James Welsh, d.1612, and wife Margery, d.1615, has long epitaph

Wall monument to Norris Hodson, d.1740 on Commodore Anson's circumnavigation of the globe and "buried in the great South Sea": coloured heraldic achievement with angels' heads and doggerel verse inscribed on the tablet

North aisle: memorial in floor to infant Frances Peacock, d.1685: two C18 wall monuments to Peacock family

wall monument set in architectural frame with palm sprays to Dudson Baker, d.1715, and wife

Fine late C16 statue of Queen Elizabeth at west end of north aisle: was removed from Dean Court, and has C19 head, dexter hand and sceptre

Stained glass: east window by kempe, 1901, in memory of Sir William Hunter

West window of south transept has 3 roundels of armorial glass

North aisle window has part of C15 Flemish glass reset at head