13th C. – St. Mary’s Church, Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire
The church is in the middle of the village overlooking the village green and is immediately visible from the main road.
The church is in the middle of the village overlooking the village green and is immediately visible from the main road.
A church constructed over several centuries. What is not the transepts is the earliest part, dating from c1250; the main body of the church and tower dates from the early 14th century;
Shipton Court on the south side of the village was built for the Lacy family in 1603. It was bought and remodelled in 1663 by the Reade family,
Tom Tower is a bell tower and the main entrance of Christ Church College. This square tower with an octagonal lantern and facetted ogee dome was designed by Christopher Wren and built 1681–82.
The existing Chapel is the third on the site. The first was under construction in 1328,
The neo-Gothic building, one of the finest in Britain, was designed by the Irish architects Thomas Newenham Deane and Benjamin Woodward.
This building, of which we give an Illustration, is now in course of erection at Stratton Audley,
Construction began on May 1, 1860, with the laying of the foundation stone by Samuel Wilberforce,
“This house, which has just been completed, has been built by the late Mr. J. H. Langston, M.P. for the city of Oxford,