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Though erected in the 13th century, the present structure is believed to occupy a Saxon site, as it is recorded that Edwine, a Northumbrian chief who became a monk, died in 801 and was buried in the monastery of Gainford in the church.

This medieval church sits, unspoilt, within magnificent Oxfordshire parkland.

The church was built in 1843 by Sydney Smirke and enlarged 1860.

The church stands in open country on a hilltop; a long, low, castellated building of limestone.

Wesley is a Grade II listed church, built to a Thomas Harrison design in 1812, accessible via steps from the City Walls and sited close to the city centre, Eastgate Clock and Roman Amphitheatre.

Dedicated to St Chad, who died in AD 672, and listed in the Domesday Book, the outline of the present building dates from the 14th century.

This limestone Grade I listed church stands in a small village at the foot of Dumbleton Hill.

St Michael's embodies an architectural history typical of the English parish church: Anglo-Saxon foundations; a Norman nave, tower and chancel; aisles of the 13th century; and sensitive reworking at the end of the 19th century.

John Betjeman, observed that ‘within and without, the church has the charm of old watercolours’.