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Binsey: Oxford's Holy Place - Its saint, village, and people (Paperback)
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Binsey: Oxford's Holy Place - Its saint, village, and people (Paperback)
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Binsey is a village to the west of Oxford, on the south bank of the
main channel of the River Thames, opposite Port Meadow, which has
been an open space belonging to the burgesses of Oxford since late
Saxon times. Although now within the ring-road, the village is
essentially rural and unspoilt. The hub of Binsey is a row of
cottages and the Perch Inn on one side of the village green. At one
time when the river was wider there was a ferry here taking
travelers across to Oxford. The church, its present building no
earlier than the 12th century though on an older site, lies a third
of a mile distant. Its association with Oxford's patron saint St
Frideswide alone makes this an evocative place for anyone with an
interest in the origins of this great University city. Its holy
well, dedicated to St Margaret like the church itself, was a place
of resort for those with eye problems or desirous of a child:
Katharine of Aragon's lack of success in conceiving a male heir
after resort to the well in a sense precipitated the English
Reformation! Later associations, which include Charles Dodgson and
Alice Liddell as well as Gerard Manley Hopkins and C. S. Lewis,
render Binsey a place for the literary as well as the religious
pilgrim. This book is a collection of essays on aspects of Binsey
and its environs. It is not a guidebook so much as an evocation of
the place, dwelling on specific aspects from the busy river to the
tranquil and silent churchyard; from the poplars,
great-grandparents of the present trees along the river and
Hopkins' great poem on them, to the personalities who served the
village community; from the Binsey of St Frideswide's time to the
community of the present day.
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