St Mary the Virgin, Wheatley
Church of St Mary the Virgin | |
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Location | Wheatley, Oxfordshire, England |
Denomination | Church of England |
Website | https://www.achurchnearyou.com/wheatley-st-mary-the-virgin/ |
Administration | |
Province | Canterbury |
Diocese | Oxford |
The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a parish church in Wheatley, Oxfordshire, in the Church of England Diocese of Oxford.
The church was designed by George Edmund Street and built in 1855–57 in the Gothic Revival style.[1][2] It is listed at Grade II*.[3]
A past vicar of the church was the Reverend Hubert Brasier, father of British Prime Minister Theresa May, who was married at the church.[4][5]
The churchyard contains three Commonwealth war graves, of a Wiltshire Regiment soldier of World War I, and a Royal Navy sailor and Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry soldier of World War II.[6]
Further reading
- Brasier, Hubert (1973). A guide to the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Wheatley. Gloucester, U.K.: British Publishing Co. ISBN 9780714009742. OCLC 877235253.
References
- ^ "Church of St Mary, Wheatley". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Sherwood, Jennifer (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300096392; p. 837
- ^ Historic England, "Church of St Mary, Wheatley (1284661)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 15 January 2012
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: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^ Mendick, Robert (9 July 2016). "The Oxford romance that has guided Theresa May from tragedy to triumph". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
- ^ Levy, Geoffrey. "Philip, the husband who will be Denis to Theresa's Maggie (without the G&Ts): GEOFFREY LEVY on future PM's 'rock' who preferred to stand in the shadows". Daily Mail. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
- ^ [1] CWGC Cemetery report, details from casualty record.