Stanton St. John is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England, about 4.5 miles (7 km) northeast of the centre of Oxford.

The course of the former Roman road that linked Dorchester on Thames with Alchester passes through the western part of the parish.

[2] The Domesday Book records that in 1086 William the Conqueror's half-brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux held the manor of Stanton St. John and Ilbert de Lacy was his principal tenant.

The arcade between the nave and north aisle dates from this period[2] and is in the Transitional style between Norman architecture and Early English Gothic.

[6] Henry III Bagley of Chacombe, Northamptonshire cast the second bell in 1716,[6] possibly at his foundry at Witney.

[5] Abraham II Rudhall of Gloucester cast the tenor bell in 1724,[6] completing the current ring.

[2] During the English Civil War, Royalist troops were stationed in the village in 1643 and 1644 as part of the defence of Oxford against Parliamentarian forces to the east.

[2] In 1717 Dame Elizabeth Holford left a bequest to be invested until it was large enough to endow a free school for the parish.