Category: Events
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Ride + Stride church #6: St Peter’s, Wolvercote
Ow ow ow! My poor little leggies weren’t made for this! Pretty sure God gave me this body for sitting around reading books and playing video games, not doing actual physical exercise?! Anyway, this is St Peter’s Wolvercote, led by Kate Tuckett. It’s the larger of two churches in its parish (the other being Wytham,…
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Ride + Stride church #5: St Mary’s, Hampton Poyle
I’ve realised that I’ve not been taking many photos externally or internally for the first few posts, so will try to correct that for the rest of the day! Hampton Poyle is the very northern tip of the deanery, and is still part of the Kidlington parish. It’s a lovely traditional, small village church which…
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Ride + Stride church #4: St Mary the Virgin, Kidlington
St Mary’s is the largest of the three churches in Kidlington parish, and was the first church I’ve arrived at which was open – they are preparing for a “Moses in a Day” scratch musical, featuring songs by Queen, Taylor Swift and others! Their church seating usually faces east (like St Giles’ and St Margaret’s)…
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Ride + Stride church #3: St John the Baptist Hall Church, Kidlington
I must say I’ve been very impressed – being somewhat lazy and unfit, I’ve never cycled up this far before – and pretty much my whole journey has followed a national cycling route (51, I think) with, on the whole, quite clear road markings and safe routes (although some of the markings could do with…
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Ride + Stride church #2: St Michael & All Angels, Summertown
St Michael’s is another daughter church of the medieval St Giles’ parish, and is nowadays led by our Area Dean, Rev Gavin Knight. A fellow member of the Inclusive Church network, it does a lot of environmental work and support of the local Ukrainian community. NB sincere apologies to anyone who received notification of this…
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Ride + Stride church #1: St Andrew’s Oxford
Starting my day early, before the “official” kick off at 10 (so probably no welcomers for the first few churches at least). ADHD bad planning #1 – forgot to get my broken bike repaired before today, so borrowing my teenager’s (slightly too small) bike instead! St Andrew’s parish neighbours both St Giles’ and St Margaret’s…