St Philip

nave C16

concrete plain-tile roofs

Rendered chancel retains shallow C13 buttresses but has fine 3-light C15 windows to south, with 4-centre-arched heads, Perpendicular drop tracery and scrolled hood stops

Early-C13 chancel arch of 2 chamfered orders has impost-capitals returning as strings

Above the tower arch are traces of wall paintings

Fittings include late-C17 barleytwist communion rails, a small font on a tall panelled stem (probably C17) and a C19 stone pulpit

2 large canopied monuments in the chancel commemorate members of the Dixon family

The earlier (probably early C17) is in painted stone with Ionic columns, obelisks, an achievement of arms and strapwork enclosing a vase of flowers and an hour glass on a skull

The monument to Edward Dixon and his 2 wives (c.1650) is in alabaster and black marble, and has the 3 figures kneeling around a prayer desk in a recess flanked by black Corinthian columns

the front panel is incised with the kneeling figures of 10 children. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p690)