St Mary's Church, Iffley
Richly carved Norman parish church with a medieval anchoress's cell site beside its sanctuary.
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This guide to St Mary's Church in Iffley, on the edge of Oxford, follows Annora de Braose, a noblewoman whose family fell foul of King John in the early thirteenth century. It touches her mother Maud's dangerous words about the king, Annora's own years behind castle walls, and the life she chose afterwards beside this church. Best heard at the south-east corner of the building, where the Norman stone meets the later Gothic sanctuary.
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