Hornton is a village and civil parish about 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Banbury in Oxfordshire.

In the 14th century a clerestory and a two-bay south aisle were added to the nave and most of the doors and windows were remodelled.

Also in the 14th century the interior was decorated with wall paintings including a Pietà,[2] a Saint George[3] and a Doom.

[4] The bell tower was built around 1400 and the present Perpendicular Gothic east window of the chancel was added in the 15th century.

[10] The open field system of farming predominated in the parish until the common lands were enclosed in 1766.

A legal dispute with the occupier prevented the parish from obtaining this income until 1800, but by 1815 the village had a free school teaching more than 50 children.