Oxford No. 24 / Oxeneford

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".