St Mary

rebuilt C12 on cruciform plan, with C12 features surviving in tower and transepts

remodelled, with aisles, late C13-early C14

transepts raised and aisles re-roofed C15

C15 moulded parapets with carved gargoyles, except to nave and chancel

West end of nave has much restored 5-light window with intersecting tracery, originally early C14, and fine C14 moulded doorway with ballflower and fleuron ornament

4-bay aisles are late C13 and have windows with trefoil-headed lights arranged in 3's with taller central lights

South aisle has C15 battlemented porch with diagonal buttresses and Tudor hoodmould over 4-centred arch

Inside porch are stone side shelves, shallow cusped niche, late C17 memorial tablet, and moulded roof beams

South chapel, to west of transept, has cusped niche over late C13 south window, and C15 and C16 2-light west windows

Transepts have 2 bays of late C15 clerestory windows with 3 cusped lights and Tudor hoodmoulds

4-light south window is also late C15 with Perpendicular tracery

Below is fine C12 doorway with chevron-moulded semi-circular arch of 2 orders, on shafts with carved caps

North transept has late C13 north doorway with trefoil head, contemporary 3-light west window, and C19 3-light traceried north window

Later C14 chapel to east of north transept has 3-light window inserted 1908

Chancel has C19 carved head corbel table, restored 5-light east window with intersecting tracery, and C19 3-light traceried south window

Arcades terminate on piers with slender corbel shafts and restored carved heads

Aisles, transepts and south chapel retain C15 roofs with moulded beams on restored carved stone corbels

South chapel has double-chamfered arch to transept, and 2 piscinae, that near pulpit with restored trefoil head and carved corbel

Within arch to chancel is retained Cll-C12 semi-circular arch with dogtooth voussoirs

Over north arch is C12 window of 2 arched lights with octagonal mullion shaft

West walls of transepts also retain C12 arched lights with deep splays, only the head surviving in north transept

South transept has C12 arch in east wall, now blocked, with old door in moulded 4-centred arch to Horde chapel

North transept has wide C14 moulded arch to east chapel

This has tall gabled niche, possibly Easter sepulchre, with elaborate cusping, crockets, and finials on carved stone heads

Chancel has semi-circular headed doorway in north wall, and much restored C15 Easter sepulchre with 2 tiers of cusped arches and blind tracery

In south wall is fine late C13 triple sedilia with trefoil arches, shafts and carved spandrels

Inset below east window is early C14 carved stone reredos with figures of Christ and 12 Apostles in crocketed niches

Fittings are mostly C19 but do include a C14 font base with trefoil-headed arcade, a strapped medieval chest, and some reused C15/C16 panels in choir stalls

Monuments: in south transept: 1) very worn medieval effigy of lady, in carved stone

2) wall monument to George Tompson 1603, with carved stone effigy lying in tabernacle with Corinthian columns, carved frieze and strapwork base and pediment

In north chapel: carved stone effigy of a knight, said to be Sir Gilbert Talbot, d.1419

In Horde chapel: 4 wall tablets with oval or round inscription panels of grey stone in carved white stone surrounds with putti, mask-heads and sculls, to Thomas and Elizabeth Cooke 1669 and 1668, Stephen Philips, 1684, Barbara Trinder, 1671, and children of John and Anne Gower, 1679

In chancel: 3 brasses, to Thomas Plymmyswode, c.1429, Robert Holcot, 1500, and Frances Gardner, 1633. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: 1974: pp429-431)