not have taken up residence until 1605. Jones married Elinor Pope, who was a maid of honour to Elizabeth I. Jones began building the present Chastleton House in 1603 and had largely completed it by 1614. He died in 1632 and was buried in the chancel, although his tombstone is no longer visible. The line of succession for Chastleton ran from Walter to his eldest son Henry (died 1656), his son Arthur (died 1687), his son Henry (died 1688), his son Walter (died 1704), his wife Anne (died 1739), their son Henry (died 1761), his son John (died 1813), his brother Arthur (died 1828) and his cousin John Henry Whitmore. In the church are wall-mounted monuments to members of the Jones family. Most notable are those to Sarah Jones (died 1687), with festoons and weeping putti and to Anne Jones, who died in 1708. Whitmore Jones John Henry was required to change his name to Whitmore Jones to inherit the house. Of his four sons, who all remained unmarried, the last died in 1874 and the house passed to the eldest of six daughters, Mary who became its first female heir. In 1900 she gave the house to her nephew Thomas Harris, who also changed his name to Whitmore Jones. He married his cousin Irene Dickins, who was the youngest daughter of the third daughter of John Whitmore. Mary died in 1915 and Thomas in 1917. Irene moved into Chastleton House, from Dover House in the village, in 1933, when the Richardson family relinquished a 37-year tenancy. Clutton-Brock In 1937 Alan Clutton-Brock came to join Irene Whitmore Jones at Chastleton House. Soon afterwards he married Barbara Foy-Mitchell and the couple moved away. But when Irene died in 1955, the Foy Clutton-Brocks moved back to the house. Alan, who was a fellow of King's College, Cambridge died in 1976, but Barbara remained until 1992, when the house was sold to the National Trust. Richardson Mr and Mrs CT Richardson were tenants at Chastleton House between 1896 and 1933 and made many important restorations to the layout of the gardens. References Bibliography for which the sources are: Duncan Gordon Colebrook – Administrator of Chastleton House Stephen Freer – local historian Christopher Westmacott The Post Office External links 14th-century church buildings in England Churches completed in 1320 Church of England church buildings in Oxfordshire Diocese of Oxford English churches with Norman architecture Grade