Weston-on-the-Green

Weston-on-the-Green is a village and civil parish in the Cherwell district of Oxfordshire, England, about 4 miles (6 km) southwest of Bicester.

Wigod died shortly after the conquest, leaving his estates including Weston to his son-in-law, the Norman baron Robert D'Oyly.

[3] Henry (II) D'Oyly sold most of the remainder of the manor to Osney Abbey in 1227, retaining only the house, watermill and demesne lands.

The panelling of the drawing room dates from the reign of William III and Mary II just before the end of the 17th century.

[3] In about 1780 the 16th-century great hall was renovated with a timber roof frame and linenfold panelling transferred from Notley Abbey in Buckinghamshire.

[3] The replacement is a characteristically box-like Georgian church, with what were originally plain round-arched windows on the north and south sides.

Instead the blank east wall is dominated by an altarpiece of the Ten Commandments thought to have been painted by the Italian master Pompeo Batoni[4] (1708–87), although this has not been substantiated.

The parish church of Saint Peter, Marsh Baldon, 12 miles (19 km) south of Weston-on-the-Green, has a Batoni painting of the Annunciation.

[6] The architect R. Phené Spiers restored the building in the 1870s, repairing the tower and adding the south porch and new seating.

German prisoners of war and Canadian military personnel built it in 1915[3] for the Royal Flying Corps.

Weston Manor , re-fronted 1820 and renovated 1851
Altar of Blessed Virgin Mary parish church, with Pompeo Batoni altar piece
Dovecote Cottage, with former dovecote in its east gable
The Chequers public house