page_title: Northmoor, Oxfordshire
section_title: Parish church
hierarchical_section_title: Northmoor, Oxfordshire / Parish church
caption_attribution_description: English: Church of England parish church of St Denys, Northmoor, Oxfordshire: Early English sedilia
context_page_description: Northmoor is a village and civil parish in West Oxfordshire, about 6 miles west of Oxford and almost the same distance southeast of Witney. Northmoor is in the valley of the River Thames, which bounds the parish to the east and south, and is close to the River Windrush which forms part of the parish's western boundary. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 377.
context_section_description: In 1059 King Edward the Confessor granted land at Northmoor to St Denis Abbey in Paris. Northmoor was made a separate parish in the 12th century, and the parish church of Saint Denys was then built. Nothing survives of this original building except the font, which is Norman.
  The earliest part of the present Church of England parish church on the same site is the Early English Gothic chancel, which was built in the 13th century. The chancel's east window is a set of three lancets and it has another lancet in its south wall. The present nave and north and south transepts were built early in the 14th century. The bell tower over the west bay of the nave was added in the 15th century. The tower has a ring of six bells. Abraham I Rudhall of Gloucester cast the fifth bell in 1714, and Thomas Rudhall cast all the others in 1764.
  The Gothic Revival architect C.C. Rolfe carried out a sensitive restoration of building in 1887. St Denys' is now a Grade I listed building.
caption: Early English piscina (left) and sedilia in the chancel of St Denys' parish church
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