St Peter And St Paul

tower rebuilt and church repaired mid/late C17

Early-C13 chancel was lengthened to 4 bays in late C13 and has 2-light windows with Y tracery separated by buttresses

Both sides have restored C15 square-headed clerestory windows in contemporary walling

South wall has, to right, a fine 5-light early-C15 window with drop tracery in a 4-centre-arched casement-mould surround, which is attributed to Richard Winchcombe, the designer of the chancel at Adderbury Church (q.v.)

a 3-light early-C14 window has cusped intersecting tracery, and a 3-light C15 window to left of the porch has a depressed arch and drop tracery incorporating a transom

C19 porch is flanked by chamfered arched recesses in the aisle walls, and it shelters a C13 doorway with a deeply-moulded arch

5-light west windows of aisles, with intersecting tracery and head stops, are C17 and contemporary with the tower

C17 north porch has a moulded Tudor-arched doorway and a quatrefoil-panelled parapet with corner pinnacles

two 3-light C14 windows to left of it have geometrical tracery

Moulded 4-centre-arched west doorway has hood-stops carved as an eagle and a monkey, and above it is a Classical entablature carried on bulbous pilasters

4-light west window has Gothic-Survival tracery, and above it large re-used stone figures of Saints Peter and Paul flank a rectangular window

Interior: chancel has a fine late-C13 sedilia and piscina, incorporated in a 4-bay arcade with detached shafts and leaf capitals

C13 chancel arch of 3 chamfered orders, the inner a C19 restoration

4-bay nave arcades, of 2 chamfered orders with circular and octagonal columns are C13 but were probably partly rebuilt in C17

Tall tower arch is C17

South aisle has a mutilated c14 piscina, a chamfered tomb recess above which steps rise, and a tall doorway formerly leading to a wall stair

North aisle has a C13 piscina, near the blocked entry to a rood stair, and the early-C13 north doorway, now internal, has a fine moulded arch and detached shafts with stiff-leaf capitals

North aisle roof, with moulded cambered beams, is probably C17

North porch has a unusual C17 stone saucer vault

Fittings include a fine traceried C15 screen, a font of 1664 and C18 communion rails, but are mostly C19

Monuments include a C14 effigy of a judge, part of a late-C14 brass, and a small panelled chest tomb with indented reredos and a fragment of the brass inscription to William Billing (d.1533)

Baroque wall tablets commemorate Beta Belchier (d.1686) and Francis Wakefield (d.1730). Small painted Hanoverian Royal Arms

Stained glass includes east window of 1888 by C.E. Kempe and 2 windows of 1923 and 1936 by A.J. Davies of the Bromsgrove Guild. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: pp568-70