Jericho
Victorian streets of former press workers' terraces, crowned by an Italianate church bell tower.
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This guide to Jericho in Oxford follows an iron cross hanging inside St Barnabas, the neighbourhood church whose Italian-style bell tower you can see over the rooftops. It turns on Thomas Hardy, who once worked for the church's architect and wrote it into Jude the Obscure under another name. Along the way you meet Thomas and Martha Combe, the printer and his wife who built it for the press workers and poor of these streets. Best heard with that tower in view.
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