Holy Trinity Church
Victorian Gothic village church built for a quarrying hamlet, with a two-bell gable and quiet churchyard.
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This guide to Holy Trinity Church in Headington Quarry, Oxford, follows the quarrymen and builders of a village that did not ask for the church a bishop raised among them in the eighteen forties. Its central figure is William Kimber, a local bricklayer baptised here, and a hard winter in eighteen ninety-nine that sent the village morris men out to dance for money. Best heard in the churchyard, facing the bell-cote on the west gable.
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