Shilton is a village by the river Shill, 1.5 NW of Carterton and a similar distance SE of Burford. The church of the Holy Rood consists of a C13th chancel, Romanesque nave and S aisle, C13th N porch and C15th W tower. Restoration from 1884 by G. E. Street. There is a small round-headed window in the E wall of the S aisle. The chancel arch was probably adapted in the C13th from a Romanesque arch with plain square jambs.

Not mentioned in Domesday Book and rather obscure. A member of Faringdon manor in the C13th, owned by the Cistercian abbey of Beaulieu, Hampshire, from this time down to the Dissolution.

The painted decoration and lead-filled pupils of the sculptured heads are particularly striking.