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St Mary the Virgin, Wheatley

St Mary the Virgin, Wheatley

Church in Oxfordshire, England

The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a parish church in Wheatley, Oxfordshire, in the Church of England Diocese of Oxford.

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The church was designed by George Edmund Street and built in 1855–57 in the Gothic Revival style.[1][2] It is listed at Grade II*.[3]

A past vicar of the church was the Reverend Hubert Brasier, father of former British Prime Minister Theresa May, who was married at the church.[4]

The churchyard contains three Commonwealth war graves, of a Wiltshire Regiment soldier of World War I, and a Royal Navy sailor and Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry soldier of World War II.[5]

Further reading

  • Brasier, Hubert (1973). A guide to the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Wheatley. Gloucester, U.K.: British Publishing Co. ISBN 9780714009742. OCLC 877235253.

References

  1. [1]
    "Church of St Mary, Wheatley". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
  2. [2]
    Pevsner, Nikolaus; Sherwood, Jennifer (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300096392; p. 837
  3. [3]
    Historic England. "Church of St Mary, Wheatley (1284661)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
  4. [4]
    Mendick, Robert (9 July 2016). "The Oxford romance that has guided Theresa May from tragedy to triumph". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
  5. [5]
    CWGC Cemetery report, details from casualty record.

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