Duns Tew

Duns Tew is an English village and civil parish about 7+1⁄2 miles (12 km) south of Banbury in Oxfordshire.

[3] The tower, south porch and many of the present windows were added late in the 14th or early in the 15th century.

[6] Matthew III Bagley of Chacombe,[7] Northamptonshire cast the tenor bell in 1768.

Robert II Wells of Aldbourne,[7] Wiltshire cast the treble bell in 1790.

[6] St Mary Magdalene's has also a Sanctus bell that Thomas II Mears of Whitechapel cast in 1828.

[3] In 1650 Anne Greene, a domestic servant at Duns Tew manor house, was convicted of the infanticide of her stillborn child.

[10] Most of the parish was farmed under two separate open field systems until 1794, when the common lands were enclosed.

[3] On the 23rd of February 1976 BBC Nationwide ran a feature on the workshop of luthier David Rubio at the Ridgehouse.

The Ridge House, opposite the parish church, was built in the first half of the 17th century
Sketch of the parish church from the southeast in 1822, showing the Perpendicular Gothic east window that it had until the church was rebuilt in 1861
Undated engraving of the parish church from the south, possibly 18th century, showing its appearance before its Victorian restoration