Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry
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Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry | |
  Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry Location in Oxfordshire | |
| Coordinates: 51°45′28″N 1°11′53″W / 51.7577°N 1.1980°W | |
| OS grid reference | SP 55453 06839 |
| Location | Headington Quarry, Oxfordshire |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Website | Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry |
| Architecture | |
| Status | Parish church |
| Functional status | Active |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Administration | |
| Parish | Headington Quarry |
| Archdeaconry | Oxford |
| Diocese | Diocese of Oxford |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Clergy | |
| Vicar(s) | Tim Stead |
Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry, is located in the district of Headington Quarry, Oxford, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Oxford.
History
The church, designed by George Gilbert Scott, was built in 1848-49, to serve the spiritual needs of those living and working in the then-active quarry. Its foundation stone was laid by Samuel Wilberforce, the son of William Wilberforce and then Bishop of Oxford, who consecrated the building on completion.[1]
Graveyard
Attached to the church is a small graveyard, particularly noted for including the grave of C.S. Lewis.[2] The epitaph on his tombstone, chosen by his brother Warren Hamilton Lewis (buried in the same grave after his own death in 1973) and taken from Shakespeare's King Lear, reads "Men must endure their going hence."
Also notable is the grave of William Kimber, the "father of English Morris" as his tombstone reads.[3]
The churchyard contains the war graves of 6 British Army soldiers of World War I.[4]
References
- ↑ Stephanie Jenkins. "Holy Trinity Church in Quarry". Retrieved 20 Nov 2013.
- ↑ "C.S. Lewis Grave". C.S.Lewis Institute. Retrieved 20 Nov 2013.
- ↑ "Holy Trinity, Headington Quarry". A Clerk of Oxford. Retrieved 20 Nov 2013.
- ↑ CWGC Cemetery Report, details from casualty record.