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St Andrew's Church, Headington [1] is a Church of England [2] parish church in the village of Old Headington, Oxfordshire, England, now absorbed as part of the suburb of Headington in the city of Oxford. The church building is located in St Andrew's Road. [3] It is a Grade II* listed building.
Churchyard of Holy Trinity, Headington Quarry. The grave of C. S. Lewis is marked by the white slab on the left. Attached to the church is a small graveyard, particularly noted for including the grave of C. S. Lewis , [ 5 ] who died on 22 November 1963.
Church of England parish church of St Andrew in Old Headington. In 1921 the civil parish had a population of 5328. [7] On 1 April 1929 the parish was abolished and merged with St Giles and St John, Stowood, Horspath, Forest Hill with Shotover and Elsfield. [8]
Headington Quarry is a suburb and civil parish of Oxford, England. Once a separate village built on the site of a former limestone quarry, it is now fully integrated into the city of Oxford and lies approximately 3 miles east of the city centre, just inside the Oxford Ring Road. It is near to Headington, Wood Farm, Risinghurst, and Barton.
Headington was a rural district in Oxfordshire, England [1] from 1894 to 1932, based on the Headington rural sanitary district. It covered an area to the east of the city of Oxford. The parish of Headington was split out as a separate urban district in 1927. It was abolished under a County Review Order in 1932.
It took its name from the hamlet of Bullingdon Green, in the parish of Horspath (just north of the modern Horspath Sports Ground), where the hundred court originally met. [1] The Domesday Book of 1096 describes the many parishes of Bullingdon hundred as being dependencies of the royal manor of Headington. [2] The hundred included: [2]
Corpus Christi, 88 Wharton Road, Headington; Blessed Dominic Barberi, Oxford Road, Littlemore; Our Lady Help of Christians, 59 Hollow Way, Cowley; Sacred Heart, Sawpit Road, Blackbird Leys; St Edmund of Abingdon and St Frideswide, , 182 Iffley Road; SS Gregory and Augustine, 322 Woodstock Road; Holyrood Church (Hinksey Parish), Abingdon Road
During the Siege of Oxford (1644-1646) the church and parish were literally on the front line between the Parliamentary forces on Headington Hill and the Royalists in the city. It was reported that, as a consequence, " no parish suffered more severely " with whole streets being demolished to facilitate the building of fortifications or to ...