St Michael
Barford St Michael, Oxfordshire
This handsome many windowed Norman and Early English church is entered through a splendidly pinnacle porch, which gives it a particularly theatrical effect.
South Newington, Oxfordshire
It is for its array of medieval wall paintings that St Peter's is celebrated. Those in the north aisle are oil on plaster and include a Martyrdom of Thomas ' Becket and a delightful Virgin and Child, strongly coloured and sophisticated for such an early date (about 1300).
Also depicted are St Margaret with the dragon that ate her, the execution of Thomas of Lancaster, and other scenes, some now very faded.
Over the nave arcades are scenes from the Passion, which may be 15th century. They are one in a much simpler, almost primitive manner.
Barford St Michael, Oxfordshire
Bloxham, Oxfordshire
Bloxham is in a small valley in the ironstone country of North Oxfordshire, on its southern side is the church of St Mary, outstanding even in an area of such splendid churches.
Little Tew, Oxfordshire