St Mary The Virgin

concrete plain-tile and Welsh-slate roofs

Late C14 chancel, in squared limestone with a tiled roof, has a 4-light reticulated east window with 2 full-height mullions, and has 2-light side windows with flowing tracery, the third pair, at the west end, at a lower level to act as low side windows

Narrow south aisle retains a 2-light C13 east window with plate tracery, but to south has a 2-light C14 window and a 3-light square-headed C16 window with uncusped lights and a label

C14 porch has an outer doorway of 2 chamfered orders and a lancet to east

it shelters a simple double-chamfered doorway with an old plank door above which is a C15 panel containing 3 image niches, (identical to one in the same position, at Merton Church (q.v.)). North aisle has two C14 2-light windows and a small rectangular opening

Clerestory has 3 C14 quatrefoil windows plus a later window to north, and has mullioned windows to south

The lower 3 stages of the crenellated tower are C13 but the bell-chamber stage is C14 with 2-light arched openings

the parapet, corner gargoyles and panelled pinnacles are probably C16/C17

4-bay late C13 nave arcades have octagonal piers and round capitals, more elaborately moulded to south, which carry arches of 2 chamfered orders

tower arch of 2 unchamfered orders is early C13

4-bay C14 nave roof has cusped arched bracing above the tie beams, between queen- and king-posts

Traces of wall paintings survive on the north wall and over the rood screen, as well as extensive painted decoration on the nave arcades plus 2 consecration crosses in the chancel

Fragments of medieval stained glass remain in the chancel tracery lights

Fittings include a tub font with a C16 oak cover, C16/C17 bench pews in the aisles, a simple pedestal pulpit dated 1616, and fine late C17 communion rails carved with ancathus scrolls and cherubs heads

The notable early C16 rood screen is complete with loft, and has an open arcade of decorated columns supporting traceried arches

the deep coving to the loft has a richly-carved pattern of intersecting ribs with ornamental panels and it supports a frieze of vines

2 broad steps in the sanctuary have medieval encaustic tiles laid in geometrical patterns

Monuments include wall tablets to Adam Airay (died 1658) and Katherine Lamplugh (died 1671), both with scrolled pediments, and a large marble wall monument with Corinthiarn columns, to Robert Benn (died 1752)

brass to Thomas Key (died 1476). (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.Vl, pp.90-91