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INFORMATION

FontID: 18074OXF
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George's In the Castle [disappeared]
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Church Location: [the disappeared church was part of the Castle]
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: [the disappeared church was part of the Castle]
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Oxford]
Historical Region: Hundred of Headington
Century and Period: 11th century (late?), Pre-Conquest? / Norman
There are thirteen entries for Oxford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5106/oxford/] [accessed 10 November 2016]; two of them mentions a church in each. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 4, 1979) notes: "The church was founded or refounded as a college of secular canons in 1074, granted to Oseney abbey in 1149, and passed to Christ Church after the Dissolution. [...] It was a parish church [...] Its parochial status and its site, apparently by the Anglo-Saxon west gate in an area of the town settled by the late 10th century, [...] suggest that St. George's existed before the castle was built" [i.e., 1071-1073, although there may have been an earlier bailey castle in its place] [...] by 1611 [...] the church was disused".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.7518, -1.26248
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 45′ 6.48″ N, 1° 15′ 44.93″ W
UTM: 30U 619936 5734862

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-06-19 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.