Oxford No. 32 / Oxeneford

There are thirteen entries for Oxford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5106/oxford/] [accessed 9 November 2016], two of which mention a church in each. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 4, 1979) notes: "The chapel of St. Nicholas on the west side of Grandpont was first recorded in 1365. [...] It belonged to Abingdon abbey and perhaps served the abbey's tenants at East and West Wyke. [...] At the Dissolution St. Nicholas's passed with the rest of Abingdon abbey's land in Grandpont to Michael Dormer of London in 1543 and to Brasenose College in 1566. [...] In the late 16th century the Berkshire archdeaconry court apparently met in the chapel, but in 1598 the college let it as a house. [...] The chapel is shown as a small rectangular building on a map of the later 16th century, [...] but it disappeared during the 17th century."