Wilcote

[1] A Saxon charter of AD 1044 referring to "Yccenes feld, where the cnihtas lie" implies that these burials were remembered locally three centuries later.

[1] Yccenes is an Old English form of "Itchen", implying contact between Romano-Britons and Anglo-Saxons, and cnihtas means "servants" or "soldiers".

[1] The Domesday Book of 1086 records that after the Norman conquest of England the manor of Wilcote had become one of the many Oxfordshire estates held by William of Normandy's half-brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux.

[6] Also in the 14th century, a small three-light east window was inserted in the chancel and the present Decorated Gothic[7] piscina, credence table and aumbry were installed.

In that year the Oxford Architectural Society surveyed the church and recommended rebuilding it in the Decorated Gothic style.

This was glazed and the nave west windows were re-glazed with stained glass by Heaton, Butler and Bayne of London.

[10] Despite the very small size of the parish, St Peter's is an active church within the wider Benefice with services currently taking place every Friday (Evening Prayer) and any fifth Sunday in a calendar month (Holy Communion).

Wilcote Manor house: late 16th- or early 17th-century house with later additions and alterations
St Peter's church: late 12th-century south doorway from the outside, showing Norman arch on cushion capitals
Wilcote Grange Barn: mid-18th century but probably with Medieval origins