St Mary the Virgin, Wheatley
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The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a parish church in Wheatley, Oxfordshire, in the Church of England Diocese of Oxford.
The church was designed by George Edmund Street and built in 1855–57 in the Gothic Revival style.{{cite web|title=Church of St Mary, Wheatley|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-246960-church-of-st-mary-wheatley-oxfordshire#.V4clB5NrjMU|website=British Listed Buildings|accessdate=14 July 2016}}Pevsner, Nikolaus; Sherwood, Jennifer (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Yale University Press. {{ISBN|978-0300096392}}; p. 837 It is listed at Grade II*.{{NHLE |num= 1284661|desc= Church of St Mary, Wheatley|accessdate= 15 January 2012|fewer-links=x}}
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.{{cite news|last=Mendick|first=Robert|title=The Oxford romance that has guided Theresa May from tragedy to triumph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/09/the-oxford-romance-that-has-guided-theresa-may-from-tragedy-to-t/|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=9 July 2016|accessdate=13 July 2016}}
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.[http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/43179/WHEATLEY%20(ST.%20MARY)%20CHURCHYARD] CWGC Cemetery report, details from casualty record.
Further reading
- {{cite book|last1=Brasier|first1=Hubert|title=A guide to the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Wheatley|date=1973|publisher=British Publishing Co.|location=Gloucester, U.K.|isbn=9780714009742|oclc=877235253}}
References
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External links
- [https://sites.google.com/stmaryswheatley.org/stmaryswheatley/home Official website]
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Category:Gothic Revival architecture in Oxfordshire
Category:Churches completed in 1857
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