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PILGRIM GOD, you are our origin and our destination. Travel with us, we pray, in every pilgrimage of faith, and every journey of the heart. DIOCESE 13 Give us the courage to set off, the nourishment we need to travel well, and the welcome we long for at our journey’s end. So may we grow in grace and love for you and in the service of others. through PILGRIMAGE MAP Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. + ,

Milton Keynes

1 St Peter & St Paul, Olney ‘Amazing Grace’ 12 Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Exceptional medieval wall paintings of John Schorne

Christ Cathedral Shrine of St Frideswide 11

14 Oxford 15 2 St Michael, 3 St Mary the Virgin, Shrine of St Edburg Richard Hooker’s church

Abingdon 4 University Church, Oxford Holy Trinity, Spiritual heart of ancient university Stanley Spencer

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Dorchester Abbey 7 St Margaret, Binsey Ancient abbey church St Giles, Alice in Wonderland’s treacle well Gray’s ‘Elegy’ 5 Windsor Reading St Michael & 6 St Mary Magdalene, 8 Newbury Windows by Morris and Burne-Jones

St , Compton Beauchamp Unique 20th century furnishings St Mary the Virgin, Speen St Thomas of Canterbury, Goring Medieval pilgrimage to the Lady Well Site of an ancient priory Artist: Brian Hall © Diocese of Oxford ST PETER AD VINCULA, ST SWITHUN, ST MICHAEL & ST ASSUMPTION OF THE 1 SOUTH NEWINGTON 5 COMPTON BEAUCHAMP 8 MARY MAGDALENE, 12 BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, South Newington parish church is one of only There was a church at Compton Beauchamp EASTHAMPSTEAD NORTH MARSTON 15 in England dedicated to St Peter ad Vincula in Norman times. The only definite trace left St Michael and St Mary Magdalene, North Marston was once the destination for (St Peter in chains). Before the dissolution seems to be the fragment of the Norman font Easthampstead is a holy place with treasures hundreds of pilgrims who came to worship of the monasteries it was under the control in the South transept. The present building from every age. In 635 St baptised King at the shrine of a former rector, John Schorne, of the Benedictine Abbey at . It is dates from the 13th century; the North Cyngils here before moving to Dorchester. and to sample curative water from his Holy most famous for its exceptional medieval wall transept and South wall of the nave are 14th From the stone church of c1160 many Well. Four hundred years later, and as a token paintings, described by Pevsner as the finest century. The Porch is 15th century. The Patron furnishings survive. Rebuilt 1865–7, the present of gratitude following a bequest from a local in . The paintings were hidden is St Swithun . The special significance church is an impressive monument to the Arts land-owner, Queen Victoria commissioned under whitewash for many centuries and only of this church is its 20th century unique and Crafts and Pre-Raphaelite movements, a refurbishment of the church’s chancel, revealed in 1893. collection of Martin Travers’ furnishings. with windows by Morris and Burne–Jones. including a new, ornate east window. http://bit.ly/southnewington http://bit.ly/stswithun www.stmichaelseasthampstead.org.uk www.northmarston.org/church Exceptional medieval Unique 20th century Windows by Morris Shrine of John OX15 4JF SN6 8NP RG12 7ER MK18 3PH wall paintings furnishings and Burne-Jones Schorne

ST MICHAEL, ST MARY THE VIRGIN, ST GILES, ST PETER & ST PAUL, 2 STANTON HARCOURT 6 SPEEN 9 STOKE POGES 13 OLNEY Stanton Harcourt, mentioned in the St Mary the Virgin, Speen is the oldest church There has been a church at Stoke Poges Olney is a picturesque town with a rich Domesday Book, lies in a bend of the River in the Newbury area. Modern visitors follow since Saxon times. The church today is mainly history, and famous for three men in Thames. It is thought to have been built in in the footsteps of medieval pilgrims as they Norman, with an Elizabethan side chapel particular. John Newton, the reformed slave 1130 by Queen Adeliza, the second wife of walk between the church and the Lady Well, integrated by the Victorians. The church is trader and abolitionist, was curate of this Henry I, who owned the Manor. The church a holy well whose origins are now lost in important because of its links with the poet church. Another curate, Thomas Scott, was a is famous for the shrine of the Anglo-Saxon time. Despite being threatened with closure Thomas Gray (1716–1771), who wrote his founder member of the Church Missionary female St Edburg, rescued from Priory in recent years, the church is now growing in ‘Elegy written in a Country Churchyard’ here society. And Henry John Gauntlet, who during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The strength and breadth. and is buried in the churchyard. Another composed the melody of Once in Royal Perpendicular Harcourt Chapel contains the memorial to Gray stands in the adjacent David’s City and is known as the father of monuments of the Harcourt family. meadow owned by the National Trust. English church music, played the organ here. http://bit.ly/stantonharcourt www.st-mary-speen.org www.stokepogeschurch.org www.olneyparish.org.uk Shrine of Medieval pilgrimage Thomas Gray’s John Newton and OX29 5RJ RG14 1SA SL2 4NZ MK46 4AD St Edburg to the Lady Well ‘Elegy’ ‘Amazing Grace’ Image UKgeofan by

ST MARGARET, BINSEY ST THOMAS OF HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, CHRIST CHURCH 3 St Margaret’s Binsey (whose foundations are 7 CANTERBURY, GORING 10 COOKHAM 14 CATHEDRAL Norman) is built on the site of a monastic St Thomas of Canterbury is in the heart of Holy Trinity Church, Cookham lies next to Christ Church, the mother church of the convent founded by St Frideswide in the late Goring, close to the River Thames. The church the Thames. Its tower rises above the trees diocese, is one of the smallest but most seventh century. In the churchyard you can was built in the 11th century and was once and welcomes travellers, crossing Cookham beautiful English Cathedrals. Built in the 12th find the ‘treacle well’ where St Frideswide surrounded on three sides by a substantial Bridge from Bourne End, to a village which century on the site of a medieval monastery, cured the sick. This was a place of pilgrimage nun’s priory. Various additions have been provided a source of inspiration to our local it is unique in the in that it throughout the late for people made over the years. In 2008/9, the church artist, Sir Stanley Spencer (1891–1959), and is is both a Cathedral and a College chapel. The seeking cure for their ailments. The treacle was refurbished and extended to make beloved by those who live here now. St Frideswide Shrine was a major medieval well was made famous in modern times by its the building accessible and versatile, fit for pilgrimage site. Today in term-time you appearance in Alice in Wonderland. worship and for serving the wider community can enjoy daily choral services sung by the in the 21st century. Cathedral Choir. www.friendsofbinsey.com www.st-thomas-goring.org.uk www.holytrinitycookham.org.uk www.chch.ox.ac.uk/cathedral Alice in Wonderland’s Site of an Stanley St Frideswide OX2 0NG RG8 9DS SL6 9SP OX1 1DP treacle well ancient priory Spencer shrine

DORCHESTER ABBEY ST MARY THE VIRGIN, UNIVERSITY CHURCH OF 4 The numinous atmosphere of Dorchester OXFORD DIOCESE 11 DRAYTON BEAUCHAMP 15 ST MARY THE VIRGIN Abbey has been honed and held over St Mary’s, a picturesque church in a field, is a Standing in the very centre of Oxford, the centuries in paintings, carvings and glass, and PILGRIMAGE MAP living, worshipping community embracing its University Church of St Mary the Virgin is affirmed through prayer. These are enjoyed rich history. Retrace the early career of Richard the spiritual heart of the oldest university in by all who enter our sacred space. Those who Hooker, Rector here in the 16th century, and Britain, and has been the focus of Christian linger experience the vibrancy of worship “People have always gone on journeys to see fine medieval craftsmanship in the font, the worship and of debates about religion, and welcome generated by the congregation enrich their spiritual lives. The desire seems Credo East window and the brass memorials. politics, and morality for over 700 years. through music, liturgy and action. Here is a deeply ingrained in human nature. Pilgrimages Other features include the Cheyne monument, place of beauty to encourage discipleship an 18th century memorial in marble with life- nurture and sustain our inner life, our ‘sacred and support all who seek meaning in life. size figures, and the angel pulpit. centre’. I hope you’ll use this map to help www.dorchester-abbey.org.uk you find your way to a handful of the many www.s-marys.org.uk www.university-church.ox.ac.uk wonderful sacred places within our diocese.” Ancient abbey Richard Hooker’s Spiritual heart of OX10 7HZ John Pritchard, HP22 5LU OX1 4BJ church Bishop of Oxford church ancient university