Photographs of Oxfordshire's Churches from around this mostly rural English County's towns and villages.

These pictures cover churches located between Abingdon and Lower Heyford

There really are a lot of churches in Oxfordshire - with even really tiny villages boasting their own local church. These village churches are often quite small but gorgeous to look at - and of course generally have lots of wildlife, wild flowers and nice trees around them too.
This page of Oxfordshire Church Photos , Pictures covers the churches to be found in the county's villages and towns with names starting between A and L. Photographs of churches located within Oxfordshire with Towns and Villages whose names are between M and Y can be found here.

It is is interesting to note how many Oxfordshire churches are named either St Mary, St Mary's or St Mary the Virgin - seems to apply to just about every other church around South Oxfordshire. Our English churches come in many shapes and sizes although ultimately the layout is in the traditional cruciform shape, aligned East to West. As mentioned many Oxfordshire villages have their own small churches which quite often date back for 100's of years - some of them belong to or were built by rich landowners so you can often find a small church near a Manor House and also located in what is now private grounds. Despite the basic shape it is quite amazing how different they often actually are in design and how beautiful many of them are to look at. They often have a very large yew tree nearby, lots of not so often seen wild flowers etc. surround the edges of the graveyards and for (the benefit of?) walkers, visitors and cyclists there are often wooden seats in the graveyards which provide a nice peaceful location for a picnic which is why we often plan our walks to arrive by a church around lunch time if possible.

Quite a few of our photographs of Oxfordshire's Churches were taken during the Winter since in the Spring and Summer the churches are difficult to photograph clearly due to the heavy foliage from the surrounding trees and shrubs - and also because of the -nearly always found- huge Yew tree situated right next to the church itself. Yew trees are extremely long-lived and were treated by the ancient Britons as a place of burial, worship and for other important ceremonies - therefore these sacred places led the first Christians to build their new churches next to them.
From March through to the summer many of the graveyards and surrounds are covered in snowdrops, then bluebells, then daffodils and so on. The village lanes around our part of the county are generally very quiet and therefore excellent for cyclists - a far better way to visit the churches than by car and of course with the extensive paths and tracks in our area you can also hike to them easily enough.
In our case our favourite way of getting around the various locations is by making up circular walks using our National Trails like the Ridgeway and the Oxfordshire Way as well as some of our beautiful canals like the excllent Oxford Canal and the impressive Grand Union Canal. (a walks menu for England (Chilterns) can be found on our page located here

Oxfordshire	Location	Oxfordshire	Location
	Abingdon St. Helen		Abingdon St. Nicolas
	Adderbury: St Marys		Adwell St. Mary
	Albury St. Helens		Ambrosden: St Mary the Virgin
	Appleford: St Peter + St Paul		Ardley St Marys
	Ardington Holy Trinity		Asthall: St Nicholas
	Aston Rowant St Peter + St Paul		Aston Tirroid: St Michael
	Aston Upthorpe: All Saints		Aston: St James
	Bampton: St Mary the Virgin		Barford St John: St Johns
	Barford St Michael: St Michaels		Beckley: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
	Benson: St Helen		Berwick Salome: St Helens
	Bicester: St Edburg		Binfield: Congregational
	Bix: St James		Bix-Bottom: St James
	Bletchingdon St Giles		Blewbury: St Michaels
	Blewbury: St Michaels		Bloxham: St Marys
	Brightwell-Baldwin: St Bartholomew		Brightwell-Baldwin: St Bartholomew
	Britwell-Salome: St Nicholas		Brize Norton: St Britius
	Bucknell St Peters		Burford: St John the Baptist
	Burford: St John the Baptist		Cassington: St Peter
	Chalgrove: St Marys		Charlbury: St Mary the Virgin
	Charlton-on-Otmoor: St Marys		Checkendon: St Peter + St Paul
	Chesterton: St Marys		Childrey: St Marys
	Chilton: All Saints		Chinnor: St Andrew
	Christmas Common:		Church Hanborough: St Peter and St Paul
	Clanfield: St Stephens		Clifton Hampden: St Michael All Angels
	Clifton Hampden: St Michael All Angels		Combe: St Laurence
	Cropedy: St Mary the Virgin		Cropedy: St Mary the Virgin
	Croughton: All Saints		Crowell: Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
	Crowmarsh Gifford: St Mary Magdalene		Cuddesdon: All Saints
	Culham St. Pauls		Cuxham: Church of the Holy Rood
	Deddington: St Peter + St Paul		Drayton: St Peters
	Drayton St Leonard: St Leonard + St Catherine		Drayton St Leonard: St Leonard + St Catherine
	Dorchester Abbey:		Dorchester: St Birinus
	Duns Tew: St Mary Magdalene		Easington: St Peters
	East-Challow: St Nicholas		East Lockinge All Saints
	Emmington: St Nicholas		Ewelme: St Mary the Virgin
	Fifield: St John the Baptist		Freeland: St Mary the Virgin
	Fritwell St Olave		Fulbrook St James the Great
	Garsington: St. Marys		Goddington: Holy Trinity
	Goddington: Holy Trinity		Goring: St Thomas of Canterbury
	Great Haseley: St. Peter		Great Milton: St. Mary the Virgin
	Great Rollright: St Andrews		Great Tew: St Michael + All Angels
	Hampton Gay St Giles		Hampton Poyle St Marys
	Harpsden: St Margarets		Hempton: St John the Evangelist
	Henley: St Mary the Virgin		Heythorp: St Nicholas
	Highmoor Cross: St Pauls		Hook Norton: St Peters
	Horspath St. Giles		Horton-cum-Studley - St Barnabas
	Idbury: St Nicholas		Ickford: St Nicholas
	Islip: St Nicholas		Kidlington: St Mary the Virgin
	Kirtlington: St Mary the Virgin		Launton: St Marys
	Letcombe-Bassett: St Michaels		Letcombe-Regis: St Andrews
	Lewknor St Margarets		Little Milton: St. James
	Little Rollright: St Phillips		Little Tew: St John the Evangelist
	Little Wittenham: St. Peters		Long Wittenham: St Mary the Virgin
	Lower Assendon:		Lower Heyford St Mary

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The Churches of East Anglia  Simon's extensive series on Suffolk and Norfolk Churches

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