St Barnabas Church
Italianate Romanesque basilica with a lone campanile, a gilded baldacchino and a hanging iron cross.
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This guide to St Barnabas Church in Oxford starts with the iron cross hanging over the nave and the Victorian vicar, Father Montague Noel, whose cross it copies. It takes in Thomas and Martha Combe, the printer and his wife who built a church for ritual in working-class Jericho, and the students who came looking for a spiritual fling. Stand in the nave where you can see the cross against the gilded altar.
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