Church Of St Martin

The Church of St. Martin is a Grade II listed building located on Church Street in Bladon. This medieval church was rebuilt in 1804 and remodeled in 1891 by architect A.W. Blomfield. It features a limestone ashlar construction with a stone-coped gabled concrete-tile roof. The church includes a chancel with a north chapel, an aisled nave, and a west tower.

The east windows are decorated-style 3-light windows, while the buttressed 3-bay south wall has a foliated round window and cusped one-light windows. The north side has a Perpendicular-style 2-light window and two cusped lights in the north chapel. The nave consists of three gabled bays with 2-light decorated-style windows on the north side, and two similar bays on the south side, which also features a buttress with 14th-century tracery set in the gable and a decorated-style south porch.

The west tower is three stages high, with decorated-style 2-light belfry windows and an embattled parapet adorned with corner pinnacles. Inside, there are late 19th-century chapel and chancel arches, a four-bay timber arcade with an arch-braced roof, and late 19th-century stained glass. This church was formerly the parish church of Woodstock, and it is notable for being the burial site of Sir Winston Churchill in the churchyard.