St. Michael, Great Tew is a nearly perfect village church. One enters opposite the late eighteenth-century vicarage by way of an early seventeenth-century stone gateway:-
Then, one sees it from the south-east walking through the churchyard:-
And from the south:-
Inside, there is a tomb of Mary Anne Boulton by Sir Francis Chantrey:-
And the graveyard is overgrown:-
Great Tew is a wonder. Rosa Beddington, great oncologist, is buried there.
It used to have a blacksmith’s forge, complete with all tools, bellows, anvils, hammers – enough for a performance of Wagner; & an estate carpenter’s shop, complete with all tools – adzes, spokeshaves, files, planes, hand drills, – and I always wondered what happened to them after the estate was sold.