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St Frideswide Church
Heritage Open Day: Explore the Grade II* 1872 Gothic-Revival church by S. S. Teulon, celebrated for its 1931 Geoffrey Webb Easter windows and a rare 1870s Hunter pipe-organ. Set between two back-streams of the Thames, St Frideswide’s was raised in 1870-72 for Oxford’s new railway suburb to a boldly individual design by the Victorian architect Samuel Sanders Teulon. Rough-hewn Charlbury stone, Bath-stone dressings give the building its striking exterior, while the broad nave still seats about 100 worshippers.
Highlights include ‘St Frideswide’s Door’ (carved by the family of Alice Liddell of Alice in Wonderland fame), five Geoffrey Webb Easter windows (1931, re-set 1984-85 by Michael Farrar-Bell), fourteen painted wooden angels added in 1950, and a two-manual A. Hunter pipe-organ dating from 1879.
Highlights include ‘St Frideswide’s Door’ (carved by the family of Alice Liddell of Alice in Wonderland fame), five Geoffrey Webb Easter windows (1931, re-set 1984-85 by Michael Farrar-Bell), fourteen painted wooden angels added in 1950, and a two-manual A. Hunter pipe-organ dating from 1879.
Saturday 13 September and Sunday 14 September
St Frideswide Church, Botley Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2 0BL
Sat 13 Sep:1430-1700; Sun 14 Sep:1230-1600; Free Entry.
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