St Margaret of Antioch, Church
Twelfth-century country church with a Norman south door and a legendary healing well.
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About this audio guide
This guide to St Margaret of Antioch, the little church at the end of Binsey Lane in Oxford, follows the city's habit of walking out here for an afternoon. It starts on a March day in eighteen seventy-nine, when the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins set off up the river towards Godstow, and reaches back to medieval pilgrims and a royal visit to the spring by the church. Stand by the yew beside the well as you listen.
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