Chapels
There was a chapel in the village by 1329, when Hugh Paynel endowed it for Mass to be said there for the souls of himself and his ancestors. It was a dependent chapelry of the parish church of St Leonard, Sunningwell. The antiquarian Anthony Wood (1632–95) visited Hannibal Baskerville and said the chapel was attached to the Baskerville mansion. Wood said the chapel had "painted windows" that soldiers from Abingdon had defaced during the English Civil War. However, he found it furnished with carpets, velvet cushions and "an excellent organ". The tithes of the chapel belonged to St Nicholas' parish church in Abingdon, and in 1712 the rector of St Nicholas' sued the rector of Sunningwell for withholding them. Thereafter no records of the chapel are known, so it may have fallen into decay after Matthew Baskerville died in 1720–21.
In 1900 a Baptist chapel was built at Bayworth in connection with New Road Baptist Church, Oxford.
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