St Michael

transepts added and chancel enlarged in mid C13 and late C13

C15 bell-stage to tower

transepts remodelled in C15

Chancel: east gable has offset corner buttresses and three mid C13 graduated lancets, with string course forming hoods over these and two groups of triple lancets to north wall and one to south

simple blocked Norman door to north

similar 3-light windows, divided by offset buttresses, to 3-bay south wall which has inserted C17 round-arched doorway

corbel table with carved heads, bird, roses and flowers

South transept: mid C13 string course forming hoods over blocked lancet to north-east, two lancets to west and mid C13 pointed moulded doorway to south

remodelled in C15 with 5-light panel tracery window to south and plain parapet

North transept: mid C13 string course forming hoods over two lancets in each side wall and pointed chamfered doorway to north

remodelled in C15 with 3-light panel-tracery window to south and plain parapet

Tower over crossing: mid C12 double-chamfered round-arched windows to lower stage

C15 bell-stage with 2-light windows and crenellated parapet with gargoyles at corners

South side of nave has two mid C12 round-arched roll-moulded windows and mid C12 doorway: pelleted hood over roll-moulded arch set on jamb shafts with scalloped capitals, and chamfered inner arch

North side of nave has two similar C12 windows, and small C15 Perpendicular 2-light window set in C13 archway with ballflower-decorated hood

North porch of 1843: fine mid C12 north door, with sawtooth-decorated hood, outer hollow-chamfered order and inner roll-moulded order set on jamb shafts with scalloped capitals

C15 parapet to nave

INTERIOR: mid C13 rere-arches set on clustered shafts, with stiff-leaf capitals to east and bell capitals to side windows

In south-west corner are shafts with stiff-leaf capital and springers of former mid C13 vaulted recess

C13 string forms hood over pointed roll-molded recess housing credence table above pillar piscina

All mid C13 features are picked out in red ochre (uncovered 1970). Two C15 archways to Harcourt Chapel, blocked in early C18 with early C19 wrought-iron gateway

Mid C13 chancel screen, a very rare example: has trefoiled openings set on banded shafts, and pierced quatrefoils etc. in screen below

door has original C13 bolt, lock and fittings

C17 parish chest in chancel

North transept: rere-arches to east set on clustered shaft with naturalistic leaf-carved capital

South transept: two similar hoodmoulds to west and early C18 wrought-iron gates set in C15 archway with two orders of shafts and capitals to Harcourt Chapel

Each transept has C15 two-bay tie-beam roof with moulded and quartered beams

Nave has four statue corbels and fine C15-style font of 1831

C15 four-bay king-post roof with cusped struts and C12 and C13 head corbels supporting arch braces with traceried spandrels

early C19 Gothick-style pulpit with steps

frieze of carved head, and two bays of octopartite vaulting inside

MONUMENTS: chancel: C17 and C18 marble ledgers, brasses of Ellen Camby (died 1516) and Sir Henry Dodschone (died 1519). Tomb of Maud, wife of Sir Thomas Harcourt, (died 1394), under arched recess in north wall: stone effigy, painted red, lies on tomb-chest with painted shields

Small wall tablet to Christopher Hovenden (died 1610), and marble wall tablets with urns and weeping women to Robert Huntington (died 1685) and William Gibbons (died 1728). Harcourt Chapel: floor brasses to Thomas Harcourt (died 1460) and Nicholas Atherton (died 1454). Fine tomb of Sir Robert Harcourt (died 1471) and wife: alabaster effigies, painted in C19 restoration, set on tomb-chest with shields in traceried panels

Similar painted effigy and tomb chest of his grandson Sir Robert Harcourt (died c.1509) with carved figures of angels and bedesmen, and Tudor roses: remains of standard above said to be that which Sir Robert carried at Bosworth Field (1485) for Henry VII

Part of a C14 chest tomb behind

another neoclassical wall-monument to William, third Earl Harcourt (died 1830) by R.W. Sievier

medieval-style monuments, with recumbent effigies on tomb-chests, to George Simon Harcourt (died 1809), and Archbishop Edward Vernon Harcourt (died 1847) by M. Noble, 1858

wall-monument to George Granville Harcourt (died 1861) by M. Noble, has classical bust on Gothic pedestal

Very fine Baroque architectural wall monument, with portrait busts in oval niches of Sir Philip Harcourt (died 1688) and wife

Stained glass

In south lancets of chancel are rare remains of C13 grisaille glass and a figure of St

armorial glass of c.1475-80 and two mid C13 roundels of a king and an ecclesiastic in the south window

An exceptional church: notable features are the remarkable C13 chancel screen and shrine, and its fine monuments. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp. 778-781

National Monuments Record