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Churches of Oxfordshire (Paperback)
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Churches of Oxfordshire (Paperback)
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Oxfordshire, once part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, has
always been a wealthy county. Its landscapes vary from the chalk
and beechwood Chiltern Hills in the south to the limestone uplands
of the Cotswolds in the north-west, which give very fine building
stone. The land supports arable and sheep farming, and is watered
by the River Thames and its many tributaries. All this is reflected
in the variety of its church buildings, architecture that is not
necessarily grand but is exceptionally beautiful and atmospheric.
This book looks at a small, representative selection of buildings
and their contents, some proudly in towns, others settled into
their rural landscapes. Since church buildings were almost always
modified over the centuries, any that date from the Middle Ages are
apt to contain features from several periods. Some have been chosen
because they still show their Anglo-Saxon origins. Some are here
for their surviving wall paintings, some for remarkable tombs. Work
of exceptional Gothic Revival architects is included, as are one or
two twentieth-century buildings. Nonconformists are represented by
the eighteenth-century Baptist Chapel at Cote and the contemporary
Quaker Meeting House at Burford. Illustrated throughout, Churches
of Oxfordshire will be of interest to local historians, residents
and visitors to the county.
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