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St Frideswide's Church
St Frideswide's Church is a Church of England church on the south side of the Botley Road in New Osney, west Oxford, England.[1] The church is in a district originally part of the parish of St Thomas the Martyr.[2] HistoryThe church is dedicated to the patroness of Oxford, St Frideswide.[3] It was designed by the 19th-century Gothic Revival architect Samuel Sanders Teulon of Westminster, London and built by the local firm of Honour & Castle. The foundation stone was laid in 1870 and the church was consecrated on 10 April 1872 by John Mackarness, the Bishop of Oxford.[4] It was originally intended for the church tower to have a spire.[1] In the nave is the "Alice Door", carved by Alice Liddell, a daughter of Henry Liddell, the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, made famous through Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.[2] Immediately to the west is Osney Ditch. The church was the setting of a Morse detective story, Service of All the Dead by Colin Dexter. Vicars of St Frideswide's
Present daySt Frideswide's stands in the Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Church of England.[5] Gallery
See alsoReferences Wikimedia Commons has media related to St Frideswide's Church, Oxford.
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