Whittock, Nathaniel: The Oxford Drawing Book, Or The Art Of Drawing, And The Theory And Practice Of Perspective: In A Series Of Letters Containing Progressive Information On Sketching, Drawing, And Colouring Landscape Scenery, Animals, And The Human Figure: With A New Method Of Practical Perspective: Detailed In A Novel, Easy, And Perspicuous Style, For The Use Of Teachers, Or For Self-Instruction. Embellished With Upwards Of One Hundred And Fifty Lithographic Drawings, From Real Views, Taken Expressly For This Work (Oxford , London, 1825)

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though as a building devoted to religious purposes it admitted of more embellishment.
This church is situated in a small village about a mile and a half from Oxford, and
consists of an aisle and chancel. The tower is nearly in the centre, on each side of
which is a circular window supported by shafts, ornamented with the zig-zag and
other rude but elaborate sculpture, so much used in churches and other buildings about
the era of the conquest. The church is entered on both sides by circular door ways,
adorned with columns, and the zig-zag, beak, and toothed ornament in receding di-
visions of mouldings. The drawing before us shews the south entrance and part of
the western doorway, which is rich in the same kind of sculpture which adorns the
rest, and though rude in its execution, produces a striking grandeur of effect. Both
on the south and north, windows of later dates have been inserted, but the circu-
lar tops are still perceptible, and shew that a regularity of architecture prevailed
throughout.
I have commenced this part of our work with these early specimens of English
architecture, that you may gain a portion of antiquarian knowledge, sufficient to
distinguish dates of buildings as we proceed; and I am not aware of any earlier spe-
cimens than the Tower of London and Ifley Church.