Steeple Barton

Steeple Barton is a civil parish and scattered settlement on the River Dorn in West Oxfordshire, about 8+1⁄2 miles (13.7 km) east of Chipping Norton, a similar distance west of Bicester and 9 miles (14 km) south of Banbury.

The minor road between Middle Barton and Kiddington forms part of the western boundary.

[2] Late in the 12th century Thomas St John had a set of fish ponds made that were fed by the River Dorn.

The former manor house at Sesswell's Barton was built in about 1570 for John Dormer and altered for the recusant Ralph Sheldon in 1678–79.

[2] Philip Constable of Everingham, Yorkshire was a Royalist in the English Civil War who was connected with Steeple Barton and was made a baronet in 1642.

[3] Its surviving original features include the south porch and five-bay arcade, both of which are Decorated Gothic.

[2] The chancel was rebuilt and the nave and south aisle drastically restored in 1850–51 under the direction of the Gothic Revival architect J.C.

[8] In 1650 she was convicted of infanticide on apparently doubtful evidence, was hanged at Oxford Castle but survived and was pardoned.

Monument to John Dormer (died 1581) and his wife, now at SS. Leonard and James, Rousham . It was in St Mary the Virgin's parish church at Steeple Barton until 1851
St Mary the Virgin parish church before it was largely demolished and replaced in 1850
Victorian era Post Office wall box outside a cottage in Back Lane
Interior of St Mary the Virgin parish church, showing 14th century Decorated Gothic arcade