Wonderful English Baroque reredos.
Rycote Chapel near Thame. Oxfordshire, is a rare example of a private family chapel in the countryside which has mercifully remained untouched for the best part of four hundred years. Nowhere in Oxfordshire is there woodwork of this quality and magnificence. The chapel itself is simple enough with fine barrel roof and gallery. The Laudian altar rails and fine baroque reredos are quite excellent. Without a shadow of a doubt Rycote is a church (now in private hands) that makes this part of England very special, the chapel can be visited at weekends from 2.00 pm-6.00 pm . The Oxfordshire Way passes the building, also of note a huge yew tree planted in 1135. Having seen photographs taken by John Piper, it appears that the chapel is in much better state of repair than it was fifty years ago, it was a place needless to say that Betjeman and Piper loved and championed.
