Churches in OxfordshireOxfordshire, England

Former Norman abbey church on a Saxon cathedral site, famous for its sculpted 14th-century Jesse window in the chancel.

Dorchester-on-Thames

Tiny Wychwood chapel unusually rich in medieval wall paintings, its nave walls still clear with saints and scenes.

Shorthampton

Small village church with well-preserved medieval wall paintings, including a vivid Doom over the chancel arch.

South Leigh

Large and elaborate wool church by the Windrush, with chapels, a fan-vaulted porch and a Civil War prisoners' inscription.

Burford

Perpendicular church with a painted font cover and the alabaster tomb of Alice de la Pole, set above school and almshouses.

Ewelme

Grand cruciform ironstone church with a tall spire and a celebrated frieze of carved figures and grotesques.

Adderbury

Large medieval church with one of the tallest spires in the county and richly carved stonework inside and out.

Bloxham

Village church whose chancel walls carry one of the most complete medieval wall-painting cycles in the country.

Chalgrove

Fourteenth-century estate-village church with a series of medieval wall paintings uncovered in the late 1980s.

Great Tew

Modest ironstone church preserving some of the finest 14th-century wall paintings in England, including the murder of Becket.

South Newington