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Architectural Features

lead and concrete plain-tile roofs

Chancel retains a 2-light traceried C14 window to south but the corresponding window to north is C19 as is the rebuilt east wall and 3-light window

South chapel, extending the aisle eastwards, has two 3-light early-C14 windows with cusped intersecting tracery, but its 3-light east window has a casement moulding and Perpendicular tracery

The plain ashlar parapet is probably also C15 and is continued on the aisle at a lower level

2-light window to right of porch, lancet to left, and the south door with continuous mouldings and head stops are C14

Steep-roofed C19 vestry, to east, has two 2-light windows, possibly incorporating some medieval work, and the 3-light east window is C15 and similar to that on the south chapel

C15/C16 clerestory has 2-light square-headed windows

Slender late-C15 tower, with a crenellated parapet and crocketed pinnacles, is in 3 stages above a high moulded plinth and has diminutive diagonal buttresses

the top stage has transomed 2-light traceried openings and on the south is a niche containing a seated figure above a shield

Interior: chancel has a small C14 piscina, and has 2-bay arcades to north and south, the latter incorporating a C15 arch, the remainder C19 as is the chancel arch

2-bay nave arcades of 2 chamfered orders with octagonal columns and moulded capitals are C14, but the tall tower arch, breaking forward into the nave, is C15

Arch leading to south chapel from aisle is contemporary with the arcade, and the chapel has a C14 piscina

Chapel roof, with moulded cambered tiebeams and purlins is C15

Elaborate oak fittings are all C19 and include return choir stalls, a traceried rood screen, and bench pews with blind-traceried ends

Circular panelled font is probably C17 but may be earlier

Fine C15 alabaster monument in south chapel has 2 recumbent figures on a panelled chest carved with monks holding staves and rosaries

C19 stained glass in chancel windows

fragments of C15 glass in tracery lights of chapel. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p718

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