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The parish church of Longborough, a Grade I listed building at the top of the village.
The earliest record of it dates from 1192, and the church grew in stages from a 12th-century nave and chancel: a west tower in the 13th century (given its battlements, pinnacles and gargoyles in the 15th), a south porch, and a 14th-century south transept built as a chantry chapel.
Inside, the south transept holds a weathered 14th-century effigy of an unknown knight and the tomb of Sir William Leigh, who died in 1631, with effigies of him, his wife and their children; there are fragments of medieval stained glass in its west windows. The octagonal font is 14th-century. On the north side is the Sezincote Chapel, added in 1822 to 1823 to designs by Charles Robert Cockerell for the family at Sezincote House, with its own outside door and a gallery reached by an iron stair.
The tower has a ring of six bells, the oldest two cast in 1680. The church is part of a benefice with Moreton-in-Marsh, Batsford and Todenham, and the parish says its doors are open every day.
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