[3] The earliest record of a church at Bloxham is from AD 1067, when William of Normandy granted it to Westminster Abbey.

But the earliest parts of the current building are fragments of 12th-century masonry, including two doorways and the responds of the chancel arch.

At this time the church was ornamented with much fine stone sculpture, including tracery and ornate capitals, much of which survives.

It is likely that it was crafted by a school of masons who carried out similar work on the nearby Oxfordshire churches of Adderbury, Alkerton and Hanwell.

[9] They are the heaviest ring of change-ringing bells in the World that are rung from the ground floor, inside the church.

However, the Papacy allowed Godstow to retain the church provided it made an annual payment to Westminster Abbey.

With Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s the advowson or patronage of Bloxham parish church passed to Crown, which granted it to Eton College in 1547.