Droxford is a villlage in the City of Winchester district of Hampshire, 10 miles SE of the centre of Winchester. The village is clustered on the western slopes of the Meon Valley, with the church at its centre. This is a flint building with ashlar dressings, and has a nave with 3-bay aisles and early 20thc. dormers added on the S side only, a chancel with N and S chapels and a W tower with a NW stair turret and an embattled parapet. The nave and chancel are 12thc in origin (see the traces of blocked windows in the chancel S wall), the aisles and chapels are early 13thc, and the chancel was restored and given a new roof, flat with a skirt, in the 18thc. The tower dates from 1599. Romanesque features recorded here are the N and S nave doorways, reset in the aisles, and the chancel arch.

In 2019 the N chapel was converted into Wilfrid's cafe, with a new connecting building added to the E end of the nave on the N side to serve as a conference room and a kitchen for the cafe.

In 826 King Egbert gave the vill of Droxford to the prior and monks of St Swithun, Winchester. According to the Domesday Survey, Droxford was held by the Bishop of Winchester for the support of his monks, and at this time it was assessed at 14 hides. IN 1284 the manor passed wholly to the bishop, the monks renouncing their claims on its use. It remained with successive bishops until the reign of Edward VI, when in 1551 Bishop Poynet surrendered it to the Crown.

The VCH offers a date of 1150-60 for the two nave doorways and the chancel arch, the earliest parts of the church. The doorways are very similar and number among the richer Romanesque works in the county. The East Meon doorways are very similar, suggesting that the same sculptors were at work at both sites, which are only 6 miles apart, while the S nave doorway has the pointed flat leaf capitals also seen at Martyr Worthy, suggesting the presence of a local workshop at all three sites in the mid-12thc.

Pevsner notes that the chancel has a roofline with 'Georgian coved cornice and boldly projecting eaves, in the manner characteristic of some of the early C18 domestic architecture of the district.' The S nave doorway was partly obscured by an effigy of St Rose of Viterbo with associated flora and fauna when we visited, but we hope to produce more scholarly images when we next visit.