An updated guide to my visits to 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, 2026)

Patrick Comerford

I have an appointment in the Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, tomorrow afternoon (21 September 2026) as a follow up to my stroke treatment four years ago. Over the weekend, I have been planning what to do, where to go and what to see.

Anxiety about timekeeping may mean I end up spending any extra time drinking coffee or browsing in the bookshops. But during those weekend thoughts I also tried to check out which churches, college chapels and church sites in Oxford I have already visited since moving to Stony Stratford and the Diocese of Oxford in 2022.

Once again, as in so many places, I found that as my postings have accumulated on this blog, it has become difficult for me, and so for readers too, 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.

There are at least 72 sites listed here, and this guide is similar to guides to churches in other areas, such as Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire, Lichfield and Staffordshire, London, Wexford, Limerick and Dublin. I have also promising myself to compile a similar guide to the churches and college chapels I know and have visited in Cambridge.

I intend to update this list as I wrote 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. So this is an afternoon to update that list and to make it easier to find those postings.

Inside Saint Giles Church, Oxford, facing the east end (Photograph: Patrick Comerford)

Oxford City churches:

1, Christ Church Cathedral (18 September 2022) and here (4 April 2026)

2, (former) All Saints’ Church (now the Library of Lincoln College), The High Street, Oxford (12 June 2024)

3, Saint Aldate’s Church, Oxford (6 April 2026)

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

5, Saint Clement’s Church, Oxford (19 October 2025)

6, (former) Saint Clement’s Church, Oxford (21 October 2025)

7, (former) Saint Clement’s Hall, Oxford (22 October 2025)

8, Saint Ebbe’s Church, Pennyfarthing Lane (23 September 2022) and also here (30 June 2026)

9, Saint Giles Church, Saint Giles (15 April 2024)

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

11, Saint Mary Magdalen Church (3 September 2023)

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

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

14, Saint Matthew’s Church, Marlborough Road (27 June 2026)

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

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

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

18, Convent of the Incarnation (Fairacres), Iffley Road, Oxford (21 June 2026)

19, (former) Holy Trinity Church, Blackfriars Road (1 July 2026)

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

A glimpse of the chapel in Blackfriars, Oxford, through intricately carved stone screen at the liturgical west end (Photograph: Patrick Comerford)

Other denominations:

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

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

23, Church of Saint Edmund and Saint Frideswide, Greyfriars, Iffley Road (21 June 2026)

24, Holy Rood Church, near Folly Bridge (26 June 2026)

25, Saint Ignatius’ Chapel (Roman Catholic), Saint Clement’s, Oxford (18 October 2025)

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

27, Saint Columba's United Reformed Church, Alfred Street (5 February 2024)

28, (former) Summertown United Reformed Church, Banbury Road (15 July 2025)

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

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

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

32, Unitarian churches in Oxford (14 September 2023)

‘The Light of the World’ by William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) in a side chapel in Keble College, Oxford (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) and here (4 April 2026)

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) and here (16 April 2024)

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) and here (17 June 2025)

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)

19, Wycliffe Hall (31 December 2012)

The Church of the Immaculate Conception in Bicester, a fine example of the work of the church architect Desmond Williams (Photograph: Patrick Comerford)

Oxfordshire:

Bicester:

1, Saint Edburg’s Church, Bicester (28 September 2025)

2, The Church of the Immaculate Conception, Bicester (2 October 2025)

3, Bicester Methodist Church, corner of Sheep Street and Bell Lane (4 October 2025)

4, (former) Methodist Church (Wesley Hall), Sheep Street, Bicester (4 October 2025)

5, (former) Congregational Church, Chapel Lane, Bicester (4 October 2025)

6, the Dissenters’ chapel, the cemetery at Saint Edburg’s Church (4 October 2025)

7, (former) Priory excavations, Old Place Yard, Bicester (4 October 2025)

Bloxham:

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

Thame:

9, Saint Mary’s Church (Church of England), Thame (5 October 2025)

10, Saint Joseph’s Church (Roman Catholic), Thame (9 October 2025)

11, Saint Joseph’s Cottage, convent of the Sisters of Providence (9 October 2025)

12, The Prebendal House, Thame (5 October 2025)

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, former mediaeval Greyfriars Friary (28 June 2026)

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

4, Grandpont House (Opus Dei), near Folly Bridge (21 June 2026)

5, Plaque to four Catholic Martyrs, 100 Holywell Street (21 June 2026)

Kidlington:

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

Old Greyfriars Street at Westgate is a reminder of the presence of the Franciscans in Oxford for over 300 years (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2026)

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 (30 August 2026)

The Oxford Jewish Centre provides for all Jews in Oxford and holds services with Orthodox, Masorti and Progressive prayer, sometimes simultaneously (Photograph: Patrick Comerford)

Last updated: 20 September 2026