Church of St Faith, Shellingford, Oxfordshire

Image: © Oswald Bertram Taken: 11 Jun 2015

C12 with porch and spire added c.1625 and late C19 vestry off nave. Coursed and uncoursed limestone rubble, limestone ashlar dressings and spire; metal roof, stone slate roof to porch. Chancel, nave, vestry, south porch and west tower with recessed spire. Early C14 reticulated 3-light east window; late C15 three-light Perpendicular and early C14 one-light window to north chancel wall; south chancel wall has 3 early C14 one-light windows and a fine Norman priests door (possibly reset in early C14) which is of two orders with carved capitals and shaft rings to columns and has dogtooth ornament to arch. North wall of nave has 3 late C15 four-light transomed windows with cusped heads; late C19 vestry has one 2-light C14 style window and steps down to plank door in basement. South wall of nave has one early C14 curvilinear 3-light window and two early C15 eight-light transomed windows to left with cusped heads and human and beasts heads to hood mould terminals. Norman south door of two orders with shaft rings and carved capitals, dog tooth ornament to arch with beasts' head terminal to hood mould; C17 plank double doors. South porch dated 1625 on cartouche above doorway, which has moulded architrave and hood mould to pointed arch and original panelled double doors; one 2-light window with cusped heads; gabled roof with fleur-de-lys finial surmounting coping. Battlements surmounting nave walls are probably early C17. West tower has Norman lancet windows, string course surmounting ground floor corner buttresses and gargoyles at base of battlemented parapet; recessed spire of c.1625 was restored 1852 and has 2-light belfry openings. (Source:Historic England)

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