Cathedrals, churches and college chapels in Oxford and Oxfordshire

Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, is unique in its dual role as a cathedral and a college chapel (Photograph: Patrick Comerford)

Patrick Comerford

Since moving to Stony Stratford and the Diocese of Oxford last year, I have enjoyed visiting cathedrals, churches and college chapels in Oxford City and Oxfordshire, writing about them and photographing them.

As the posts accumulate on this blog, it may be difficult for some readers to find these postings on this site. The number of churches, chapels and church sites I am visiting continues to grow. So this posting offers links to these and similar postings.

I intend to update this list as I write about more churches and buildings, indicating the date of the latest update at the end of this posting, and to provide an additional link in the toolbar in the banner at the top of the front page of this site.

Oxford City churches:

1, Christ Church Cathedral (18 September 2022)

2, Saint Barnabas Church, Jericho (29 August 2023)

3, Saint Ebbe’s Church, Pennyfarthing Lane (23 September 2022)

4, Saint Luke’s Chapel, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter (19 October 2022)

5, Saint Mary Magdalen Church (3 September 2023)

6,, Saint Martin’s Church and Carfax Tower (30 October 2023)

7, Saint Mary the Virgin, the University Church (19 September 2022)

8, Saint Michael at the North Gate (22 September 2022)

9, Saint Paul’s Church (closed), Walton Road (28 August 2023)

10, The Hospital Chapel, John Radcliffe Hospital (1 November 2022)

11, The ruins of Osney Abbey, Osney Priory and the cathedral (21 December 2023)

Other denominations:

12, Saint Aloysius Church (Roman Catholic), Woodstock Road (11 September 2023)

13, Blackfriars Priory (Dominicans), Saint Giles (9 September 2023)

14, Strict Baptist Chapel, Jericho (30 August 2023)

15, Wesley Memorial Church (Methodist), New Inn Hall Street (24 September 2022)

16 Friends’ Meeting House (Quakers), Saint Giles (12 September 2023)

17 First Church of Christ Scientist (Christian Science), Saint Giles (13 September 2023)

16, Unitarian churches in Oxford (14 September 2023)

The reredos in the chapel of All Souls College, Oxford … a reminder of the ‘Faithful Departed’ on 2 November (Photograph: Patrick Comerford)

Oxford College chapels:

1, All Souls’ College (2 November 2022)

2, Balliol College (4 September 2023)

3, Blackfriars Hall (9 September 2023)

4, Christ Church (18 September 2022)

5, Corpus Christi College (3 November 2022)

6, Exeter College (31 October 2022)

7, Harris Manchester College (14 September 2023)

8, Keble College (31 August 2023)

9, Magdalen College (6 September 2023)

10, Merton College (5 November 2022)

11, Oriel College (4 November 2022)

12, Pembroke College (30 October 2022)

13, Pusey House (21 September 2022)

14, Ripon College Cuddesdon (29 October 2013)

15, St Edmund Hall (5 September 2023)

16, Saint John’s College (20 September 2022)

17, Trinity College (10 June 2023)

18, Wadham College (2 September 2023)

Oxfordshire:

1, Saint Mary’s Church, Bloxham (1 November 2022)

2, Church House (Diocesan Offices), Kidlington (16 October 2022)

Saint Mary’s Church, Bloxham, and its 198 ft spire can be seen from miles around, a key landmark in Oxfordshire (Photograph: Patrick Comerford)

Church history and church life in Oxford:

1, The mediaeval Carmelite and Benedictine houses in Oxford (16 September 2023)

2, The Martyrs’ Memorial, Saint Giles, Oxford (17 September 2023)

Jewish life in Oxford:

1, Oxford Jewish Centre (16 September 2022) and HERE (1 April 2022).

2, Site of mediaeval synagogue, opposite Pennyfarthing Lane (16 September 2022).

3, The Oxford Centre for Hebrew Jewish Studies, Clarendon Institute, Walton Street (16 September 2022).

For churches in other parts of the Diocese of Oxford, including Milton Keynes and Buckinghamshire, see HERE

Last updated: 16 September 2023; 25 October 2023; 30 October 2023; 21 December 2023