This is an important Cherwell Valley church, built in the 13th and 14th centuries but embellished with battlements and pinnacles a century or so later.
Somerton, Oxfordshire
The south aisle became a chantry chapel for the Fermor family in the reign of Henry VIII, shortly before chantries were abolished. An exceptionally wide arch leads into it from the chancel through a screen.
Apart from the three rich marble Fermor tombs in the chantry, the church contains two rarities: an early 14th century stone reredos depicting the Last Supper and a Holy Rood sculpted on the outside of the tower
North Aston, Oxfordshire
Lower Heyford, Oxfordshire
Croughton, Northamptonshire
The remarkable feature of this church is the series of 14th century wall paintings which were discovered almost a century ago by Professor Ernest Tristram, the authority on such works and a professor at the Royal College of Art.
