When the Cistercian Beaulieu Abbey in Hampshire was founded in 1203–04, it was endowed with a group of manors that were headed by Great Faringdon and included Shilton.

[2] In about 1848 the architect and antiquarian Frederick S. Waller drew a plan and sections of an aisled barn at Shilton.

[3] Beaulieu Abbey also held the manor at Great Coxwell, 9 miles (14 km) south of Shilton.

It is somewhat larger and structurally more complex than the barn that Waller found at Shilton, but it gives an idea of the scale, style and quality of building that the Cistercians commissioned.

[3] Heyworth found that the lintels of two large doorways in the barn were re-used timbers that had been principal posts.

[10] The present side windows of the nave and aisle are also late Medieval Perpendicular Gothic additions.

[11] Holy Rood church tower has three bells, all cast in 1854 by W. & J. Taylor[12] of Loughborough, who at the time also had a bell-foundry in Oxford.

[18] In 1938 Oxfordshire County Council rebuilt the bridge, making the road across it wider and reducing the hump.