"Aynho is a church, a house, a village and a landscape on the Oxfordshire - Northamptonshire border.  This setting arose on the ruins of Aynho left by the Civil War.  The Cartwright family rebuilt the house over a period of forty years and survived here until 1954, when two generations of Cartwrights, father and son, were both killed in a car crash.  The big house is divided into flats.  The churchyard is an ornamental lawn, adjacent to the drive and looking out over the park to the Cherwell valley and the M40 in the distance.

"The church architect in 1723 was a local carpenter-cum-mason, Edward Wing, designing in the English Baroque [style] of of Archer and Hawksmoor.  Thomas Archer had himself worked at Aynho House, and Wing's north and south elevations to the church might be practice runs for the façade of a country house, with a central pediment and doorway.  The ceiling is a dreadful 1960's insertion and the grisaille glass shuts out what should be the glory of the church, a view of the trees and walls of the churchyard. But the west gallery and handsome box-pews survive, with a fine wooden lectern, candleholders and painted organ pipes."

There are also two windows by Kempe in the south aisle which are "some compensation".