Architectural Features
Part of the C12 corbel table visible on the north and south sides of the nave.
Wyck Rissington church is dedicated to St Laurence and dates from the 12th century. The church is Grade I listed, see https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1303915?section=official-list-entry. Composer of The Planets Suite' Gustav Holst played the organ in this church as a teenager before attending the Royal College of Music.
two 2- light and one 3-light windows with rectangular casement-moulded surrounds, Perpendicular tracery (restored C19) and moulded stopped hoods with carved head stops.
C14 style, C19 pointed window with moulded hood with early stops far right within the blocking of the arch formerly opening into the south transept.
C13 lancet with moulded continuous dripmould and continuous roll-moulded sill below.
Narrow plank priest's door with decorative hinges within a narrow C13 flat-chamfered basket- headed surround with a segmental moulded hood lower right.
Tower of four diminishing stages (the lower 2 stages being probably of C13 date).
C19 plank door within a reset C12 flat-chamfered round-headed doorway with a stopped hood.
Early headstone with a circular head and crudely inscribed inscription 'T (?) M / (?) JESPER / IRLAND / MADETH / ---- (?) N 1638 /.
Upper part of a Medieval grave slab with a cross with foliate decoration below the latter.
C12 corbel table faces into the north aisle.
Tall pointed C15 arch of three chamfered orders, between the nave and tower base, the inner order rises from engaged semi-circular columns with moulded capitals.
C19 trussed rafter roof to the nave, medieval wagon roof to the chancel.
Coloured tile flooring with some encaustic tiling in the chancel and sanctuary.
high round- headed arch with simple moulded capitals and keel moulding continued down the jambs behind the pulpit, this arch formerly opened into the south transept.
tub- shaped font of c1200 at the west end of the nave.
C19 octagonal wooden font with blind tracery.
Brass lectern.
C19 wooden communion rail and ornately carved reredos with crucifixion and figure of St George and the Dragon.
Stained glass
there are a few fragments of early C14 coloured glass in the heads of the lancets.
The window on the south has the Crucifixion scene at the top, the glass is otherwise grisaille.
Apart from the C14 fragments in the chancel the glass is C19 or C20, one window by Kempe and Tower 1917 and one by Powell and Sons of Whitefriars 1928.
the Advowson gave the rents to Eynsham Abbey before 1264 and it is possible that the monks of Eynsham were responsible for the building of the chancel and tower.