Catholic Oxford

Two modern plaques in the University Church, St Mary the Virgin in the High Street. One commemorates the Oxford lectures of Blessed John Dun...

A TOUR OF OXFORD The sections below are taken from Monsignor Laurence Goulder: The Universities: Oxford and Cambridge , in the Pilgrimage Pa...

From Goulder Chapter I: Places Visited on the Way to Oxford, Part 1. This is not, of course, Dorchester in Dorset, but the town of the sam...

From Goulder Chapter I: Places Visited on the Way to Oxford, part 2. Going from Dorchester to Littlemore, we pass abruptly from the middle a...

From Goulder, Chapter II Before the Norman Conquest, Oxford was protected by earth defences reinforced by timber stongpoints. These were r...

The Guild of Ransom tours to Oxford enter the town through the Iffley Road, pass over Magdalen [1] Bridge, turn right into Long Wall Street...

The new church of St Edmund of Abingdon [1] and St Frideswide [2] stands south of the point where Jackdaw Lane joins the Iffley Road. It w...

On the opposite side of Iffley Road, between James Street and Mar­ston Street, are the headquarters of the Anglican community known as the C...

St Clement’s now stands in Marston Road, a turning on the north side of St Clement’s Street. The medieval church stood in the middle of the ...

Just before Magdalen Bridge, there is a cul-de-sac on the left, called Cowley Place. In it stands St Hilda’s College for women, founded in 1...

Manchester College is not part of the university, but a post-graduate college for Nonconformist ministers. It was founded in Manchester in 1...

The church stands at the point where Manor Road leaves St Cross Road. St Cross has a twelfth-century chancel. There is evidence that the bui...

The ancient manor house of Holywell, now a hostel for Balliol College, stands close to the church. It has passed through many vicissi­tudes....

As the coach proceeds along St Cross Road, Mansfield College can be seen across the playing-fields to the left. Its status is similar to tha...

At the top of St Cross Road, we turn left and go through South Parks Road with its line of laboratories, and then turn right into Parks Road...

The coach turns into Keble Road and thence into St Giles’, from which point the tour is continued on foot. The great open space, known to un...

This church has a late thirteenth-century tower. The nave, the porch and the south wall of the chancel are early thirteenth-century, while t...

The church stands close to the southern end of the Woodstock Road and is the principal Catholic church of Oxford. The mission was founded in...

The college of St John the Baptist was founded in 1437 as St Bernard’s College by Henry Chichele, [1] archbishop of Canterbury. It was in­t...