Oxford: St Philip & St James

Name:
Oxford: St Philip & St James
Record Type:
Closed Church
Church code:
627227
Diocese:
Oxford
Archdeaconry:
Oxford
Parish:
Oxford, St. Philip and St. James with St. Margaret

Statutory Designation Information

Listed Building?
This is a Grade I Listed Building
View more information about this Listed Building on the National Heritage List for England web site
Scheduled Monument?
There is no Scheduled Monument within the curtilage or precinct

National Park

The church is not in a National Park

Conservation Area

The church is in the following Conservation Area: North Oxford Victorian Suburb

Heritage At Risk Status

On Heritage At Risk Register?
This church is not on the Heritage at Risk Register
 

Approximate Date

Approximate Date:
Victorian/Pre-WWI

Exterior Image

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Summary Description

No doubt partly as a result of its position in a centre of learning, this church has become one of the most famous examples of ecclesiastical Gothic Revival architecture in the country. It dates from the potent years of High Victorian architecture when the first imitative designs of the early Revivalists had been superseded. by the more free-ranging concepts of the younger generation. Street was in the forefront of this movement, and this church occupies a central position in the most uncompromisingly original phase of his career, not only as the earlier by far of his only two fully cruciform churches, but also by reason of its boldly experimental Tractarian planning, later evolved into distinctive types at All Saints Clifton and St. John the Divine Kennington.

Visiting and Facilities

The church is closed for worship.
Date closed for worship: 01/01/1982
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Church Website

Church Website:
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Sources and Further Information

James Miles (2018) Closed Churches [Digital Archive/Data]
Church Buildings Council (2019) Church Bells 1 Bell [Archive/Index]
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