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St Andrew

Oddington

Oxfordshire

Church, C13, C14/C15, restored and altered 1889 by E.G. Brutons Limestone rubble with ashlar dressings

Architectural Features

plain-tile roof

Chancel is mostly C14/C15 and has a square headed 2-light C15 window with Perpendicular tracery in the south wall, taken from the north wall to replace a similar window of which the tracery survives inside the church

western lancet of aisle is C13

Porch is partly medieval and has an outer arch with continuous mouldings, and shelters a C13 doorway with a roll-moulded arch and a pair of detached shafts

2-stage C13 tower has a cusped-lancet west window and, at bell-chamber stage, paired lancet openings below arched hood moulds

Interior: chancel has a small C14 cusped piscina and an aumbry

Simple unchamfered C13 tower arch

Fittings include a communion table of 1637, some C16/C17 bench pews plus C19 copies, a panelled oak pulpit dated 1617, and a C17 oak chest

A brass of c.1500 shows Ralph Hamsterley, Rector 1499-1508, in a worm-infested shroud

The plain tub font retains a medieval staple and has a fine Arts and Crafts cover of 1920

S.H. Scott (1915-49) the church was equipped with Flemish brass chandeliers and numerous copies of Italian paintings, plus many other fine furnishings and some stained glass. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.VI, p.284

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