Parish Church
St Peter's Church is of Norman origin with mainly 13th-century additions. The chancel was rebuilt in 1862. St Peter's is Grade 1 listed by English Heritage for its significant architectural and historical importance.
The travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor is buried in the churchyard with his wife Joan and there is a memorial to Arctic explorer Gino Watkins. A large painted monument dedicated to Sir Charles Percy son of the Earl of Northumberland and Dorothy Cocks, his wife, is to be found within the church. The colourful monument of two figures kneeling over their deceased child is situated within a deep round-headed niche flanked by free-standing Corinthian columns.
The redundant St Mary's Church, Little Washbourne is also in the parish of Dumbleton. The parish was in the possession of Abingdon Abbey until the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
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—Mitchell Parish (1901–1993)
“The church is a sort of hospital for men’s souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those who are taken into it live like pensioners in their Retreat or Sailor’s Snug Harbor, where you may see a row of religious cripples sitting outside in sunny weather.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)