St Giles

old plain-tile roof

The 2-bay chancel retains, to north, a lancet of c.1200 and a small arched doorway, but the south wall is early C14 and has two 2-light windows with geometrical tracery

The 3-light east window is late C14 early-Perpendicular style and there is a square-headed 2-light C15 window inserted in the north wall

The south wall of the C12 nave has, to east, a rebuilt section across the former transept containing a plain 3-light C17 stone-mullioned window

The C12 south door, under a deep hood mould with lozenge decoration and containing an old plank door with the remains of crescent hinges, is sheltered by a C19 timber-framed porch

To west of it are a square-headed C15 window set in a C12 opening (visible internally) and a matching C19 window

The north wall of the nave is blind except for a late C12 doorway with an old plank door and a moulded outer arch supported on detached shafts with flat-leaf capitals

The western angles of the nave retain C12 roll mouldings

The late C13 north transept has a cusped lancet and a small 2-light window with cusped Y-tracery

The late C13 3-stage tower has a cusped lancet, to west, 2-light belfry openings with plain Y-tracery and a rendered octagonal broach spire rising from within a plain parapet

To west are 2 massive C15 buttresses

Interior: the chancel has, to south, a C15 piscina and a richly-moulded arched tomb recess of c,1300 with pierced cusping

The 7-centred coupled-rafter roof is probably C14

The black and white marble floor may be C17

The C14 chancel arch contains a simple C15 screen

Beyond the late C13 tower arch is an ancient stair with solid triangular treads

C12 tub front

plain C17 panelled pulpit

Fine early C15 glass in north window of chancel, including 2 donor figures, and fragments in 2 other windows

Memorials include an elaborate wall monument of 1650 to Walter Dunch containing 2 shrouded wreathed marble half figures framed by black marble Tuscan columns supporting a broken segmental pediment containing an armorial cartouche

A standing white-marble monument to Sir Henry Dunch (died 1686) is topped by a large urn

There are also many C18 wall tablets to the White family, and many C17 and C18 ledgers. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp.715-6).