The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Mary Magdalen (medieval)
Parish church
A small medieval parish church of rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings. The church has a 13thc. chancel, and 15thc. nave, W tower and S porch. The S transept is 19thc., forming part of restorations in 1886 by John Belcher. The only 12thc. features are the simple N and S doorways and the plain font. The doorways were retained or reset in the 15thc. when the aisleless nave was rebuilt.
Parish church
Wardington is in the extreme north of Oxfordshire, 5 miles NE of Banbury. It is known that a chapel existed here by the C12th. The church now consists of chancel, nave, N and S aisles, a S chapel, W tower, and vestry. The existing nave and both aisles were built in the C13th and the W tower c. 1400. Although the chancel was remodelled in the C14th, it retains some fragmentary Romanesque features, including two window arches in the chancel, visible internally, and parts of the imposts of the N side of the chancel arch. The E arch of the N arcade, which may have been the entrance to a N transept, also has responds with imposts dating from the C12th.