St Mary's Church, Banbury

Last updated

St Mary's Church
St. Mary's Church - Banbury.jpg
St Mary's Church, seen from the west
St Mary's Church, Banbury
52°03′41″N1°20′21″W / 52.061483°N 1.339084°W / 52.061483; -1.339084
CountryEngland
Denomination Church of England
Churchmanship Central
History
StatusActive
Architecture
Functional status Parish church
Heritage designation Grade I listed
Architect(s) Samuel Pepys Cockerell
Charles Robert Cockerell
Administration
Diocese Diocese of Oxford
Archdeaconry Archdeaconry of Dorchester
Parish Banbury St. Mary
Clergy
Vicar(s) The Revd Serena Tajima [1]
NSM(s) The Revd Canon Jeff West
Laity
Organist/Director of music Dylan McCaig

St Mary's Church is a Church of England parish church in Banbury, Oxfordshire in the Diocese of Oxford. The church is a Grade I listed building. [2]

Contents

History

St Mary's Church was built in the 1790s to replace the Medieval one damaged during the English Civil War. The church was designed by Samuel Pepys Cockerell, with a tower and portico added by Charles Robert Cockerell in 1818 to 1822. [2]

The inside of the church was re-ordered in the 1860s and 1870s by the then vicar Henry Back, an Anglo-Catholic, to make it more suitable for Eucharistic worship. He commissioned Arthur Blomfield to oversee the re-ordering and to decorate the church in a Byzantine style. [3] It was during this time that stained-glass windows designed by Robert Turnill Bayne (1837–1915) were added, including one depicting The Parable of the Talents.

Present day

St Mary's Church stands in the Central tradition of the Church of England. [4] It is a member of Inclusive Church. [5]

From 1993, the church was shared by the Church of England and the United Reformed Church; it was not, however, a Local Ecumenical Partnership. [3] [6] This agreement ended by the time of the 2019 vacancy. [5]

The church's Resurrection Chapel is home to one of the 84 Lamps of Brotherhood that were made after World War II as a sign of reconciliation between nations. [7]

Notable clergy

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Diocese of Oxford</span> Diocese of the Church of England

The Diocese of Oxford is a Church of England diocese that forms part of the Province of Canterbury. The diocese is led by the Bishop of Oxford, and the bishop's seat is at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. It contains more church buildings than any other diocese and has more paid clergy than any other except London.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bishop of Salisbury</span> Ordinary of the Church of Englands Diocese of Salisbury

The Bishop of Salisbury is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Salisbury in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers much of the counties of Wiltshire and Dorset. The see is in the City of Salisbury where the bishop's seat is in the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The current bishop is Stephen Lake.

David Thomson, is a British retired Church of England bishop. From 2008 to 2013, he was the Bishop of Huntingdon, sole suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Ely.

John Alexander Ellison was a British Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Paraguay from 1988 to 2007.

Ronald Graham Gregory Foley was an Anglican clergyman who was Bishop of Reading from 1982 to 1989 and the first area bishop under Oxford diocese's 1984 area scheme.

Wallace Parke Benn is a bishop of the Church of England. He was the area Bishop of Lewes in the Diocese of Chichester from May 1997 until his retirement in October 2012.

Anthony Lewis Elliott WilliamsChStJ was a British Anglican bishop. He was the third Bishop of Bermuda, serving from 1956 to 1962.

Arthur William Goodwin Hudson was a coadjutor bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney.

Roderick Charles Howell Thomas is a retired Church of England bishop. He was the Bishop of Maidstone, a provincial episcopal visitor for conservative evangelical members and parishes of the church, from 2015 until his retirement in 2022.

Luke Jonathan Miller is a Church of England priest. Since January 2016, he has been Archdeacon of London. From 2010 until 2015, he was Archdeacon of Hampstead in the Diocese of London. He is an executive officer of the Society of Mary, an Anglican devotional society.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Killinghall</span> Church in North Yorkshire, England

The Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Killinghall, is an Anglican parish church in Killinghall, North Yorkshire, England. It was designed in 1879 by William Swinden Barber when the parish of Ripley was split to create the additional parish of Killinghall, and a new building was required to accommodate a growing congregation. It was opened in 1880. Among the early vicars posted in this benefice were two canons, Sydney Robert Elliston and Lindsay Shorland-Ball, and the Venerable Robert Collier, an Irish missionary who served in India and Africa.

Jacqueline Ann "Jackie" Searle is a British Anglican bishop. Since 2018, she has served as the Bishop of Crediton, a suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Exeter. She had previously been the Archdeacon of Gloucester between 2012 and 2018.

Matthew John Parker is a British bishop who has served as area Bishop of Stafford since 2021. He was previously Archdeacon of Stoke since 2013.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Church of St Mary and St Nicholas, Littlemore</span> Church in Oxfordshire, England

The Church of St Mary and St Nicholas is a Church of England parish church in Littlemore, Oxford, Oxfordshire. The church is a grade II* listed building. The church was founded by John Henry Newman, later Cardinal Newman of the Roman Catholic Church, and it became a centre of Anglo-Catholicism.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St Mary's Church, Hull</span> Church in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

The Church of St Mary, also known as Lowgate St Mary, is a Church of England parish church in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire. The church is a grade II* listed building.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arun Arora</span> British Anglican priest and solicitor (born 1971)

Arun Arora is a British Anglican bishop and solicitor. Since, 2022 he has served as Bishop of Kirkstall in the Diocese of Leeds. From 2012 to 2017, he served as Director of Communications of the Archbishops' Council of the Church of England, then until 2022 as vicar of St Nicholas' Church, Durham.

St Mary the Virgin Church is a parish church in Welling in the London Borough of Bexley. It is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The church is in the Archdeaconry of Lewisham & Greenwich, in the Diocese of Southwark. It is notable for the range of 20th-century art contained within it.

Paul Richard Thomas is a British Anglican bishop who has served as Bishop of Oswestry, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Lichfield and the provincial episcopal visitor for the western half of the Province of Canterbury since February 2023. From 2011, he was vicar of St James's Church, Paddington.

References

  1. ↑ "The next chapter". St Mary Church, Banbury. 15 July 2020. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  2. 1 2 Historic England. "CHURCH OF ST MARY (1369519)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Pairsh Profile: St Mary's Church, Banbury" (PDF). Diocese of Oxford. November 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  4. ↑ "Banbury St Mary, Banbury". A Church Near You. Archbishops' Council. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  5. 1 2 "St Mary's Church Banbury: Parish Profile" (PDF). Diocese of Oxford. April 2019. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2 December 2020. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  6. ↑ "The United Reformed Church". St Mary's Church, Banbury. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  7. ↑ "St. Mary, Banbury, Oxon". Oxford Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers. 2009. Archived from the original on 5 February 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  8. ↑ "David Thomson" . Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing . Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  9. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1940-41 Oxford, OUP, 1941
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.