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Architectural Features

Mid-C14 with C15 embattled parapet

Mid-C14 north aisle buttressed in 4 bays has 2-light windows with reticulated tracery to north wall and similar 3-light windows to east and west walls

date "1769" carved on stone to east of second window from west

Nave: south parapet has weathered carved head (medieval) to centre and apex to east has C19 octagonal stone stack

carved heads to moulded cornice below parapet

head of infilled C17 doorway with wedged voussoirs and projecting keystone to right

C14 cinquefoil-headed gabled tomb canopy to east of C19 doorway houses stone slab with carved foliated cross (largely worn away at time of resurvey (July 1987)). Interior

C14 north nave arcade in 4 bays has octagonal piers with pointed double-chamfered arches, moulded capitals and chamfered plinths

Pointed C14 Easter Sepulchre opposite and infilled rectangular recess in south wall Nave has low-pitched tie beam roof in 7 bays with short braced wall-posts on head corbels (eaves line of former roof visible below) and gilded bosses at intersection of panels

C19 arch-braced roof in 4 bays to chancel has billet moulding to wall-plate and stone corbels carved as angels

Contemporary square stone pulpit also has blind tracery patterns plus pierced quatrefoils to top

C13 circular font with moulded plinth

Stone-flag floor to nave and aisles and C19 encaustic tiles to chancel, including to raised sanctuary, which has mid-C19 stone reredos above contemporary wooden altar table with painted panels of saints and angels in circular and pointed recesses

Elaborate C19 Gothic-style brass chandelier hanging from roof and brass altar rails of 1885

Stained glass throughout mainly of 1852-3 but vivid east window is 1843

Monuments

North wall of chancel: brass plate to Katherine James (d.1588) in Easter Sepulchre

kneeling figure with her 3 children

Collection of C18 wall memorials and cartouches including one with scrolls and cherubs to Reverend William Dowdeswell (d.1711) and one C18 hatchment in tower. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp673-4) [2585]

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