 In the 18th century Magdalen College, Oxford and the Earl of Abingdon contributed to the building of a west gallery in the nave.By 1840 the east wall of the chancel was out of alignment so the chancel was demolished and rebuilt to designs by the architect HJ Underwood, who retained the Perpendicular Gothic side windows with their mediaeval stained glass but dispensed with the mediaeval roof and replaced the Early English east windows with a neo-Perpendicular one.A contemporary condemned this work as ""wanton destruction"".