Parish Church
The first known record of Drayton Parslow having a parish church dates from 1232. The present Church of England parish church of the Holy Trinity is somewhat later, being partly Decorated Gothic and partly Perpendicular.
Holy Trinity has a ring of six bells. Bartholomew Atton of Buckingham cast the tenor bell in 1591. The other five were cast by John Taylor & Co of Loughborough: two in 1842 and the remaining three including the treble bell in 1935.
Holy Trinity has a Sanctus bell that was cast by Anthony Chandler in 1669. The Chandler family were bell-founders in Drayton Parslow from 1635 to 1726. Their business then passed to Edward Hall, who continued bell-founding in the village until 1754. Other examples of Chandler bells still in use are at St. Nicholas, Ickford and across the Oxfordshire county boundary at The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Beckley, SS Peter and Paul, Steeple Aston and the Sanctus bell at St. Mary, Chesterton.
Drayton Rectory is a Georgian house of five bays built in 1754.
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