University Church of St Mary the Virgin
Medieval university church with a baroque porch, twisting columns and a contested Virgin and Child.
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This guide to the University Church of St Mary the Virgin in Oxford stands you beneath the carved Virgin and Child over its High Street porch, on a September day in sixteen forty-two, a few weeks into the English Civil War. It follows Archbishop William Laud, his chaplain Morgan Owen, and the Puritans who saw idolatry in stone and twisting columns. Best heard on the pavement, looking up at the niche.
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