Drayton St. Leonard is a village and civil parish on the River Thame in Oxfordshire, about 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Oxford.

In the 19th century the family still held the largest acreage, but Trinity College, Oxford had also become a significant landowner in the parish.

[2] In the 13th century a transeptal chapel was added on the north side and new windows were inserted in the nave,[2] all in the Early English Gothic style.

[6] The latter is based on a painting by the 15th century Early Netherlandish painter Dirk Bouts in St. Peter's Church, Leuven in Flanders.

The Old Rectory, which was sold into private ownership after the Second World War, was designed by the architect John Billing and built in 1862[6] in the Victorian Gothic style for the new rector the Reverend Arthur Williams and his large family.

[2] The village War Memorial is a sandstone cross, designed by Sir Aston Webb, architect of many well-known buildings including Buckingham Palace and Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.

[citation needed] It was unveiled by Major General Sir Robert Fanshawe KCB, DSO in 1923.

For many years Morrells of Oxford controlled the Catherine Wheel but it is now a free house.