Henry I granted a chapel at Headington to the Augustinian canons regular of the Priory of St Frideswide, Oxford, when the priory was founded in 1122. The Church of England parish church of Saint Andrew was built in the middle of the 12th century and enlarged in the 13th century. The bell tower was started in the 13th or 14th century and completed in about 1500. St. Andrew's was repaired in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Gothic Revival architect J.C. Buckler restored the building and lengthened the nave in 1862–1864.