St Anthony Of Padua, Oxford
The Church of St Anthony of Padua, Oxford is a yellow brick-built Catholic church in suburb of Headington, east Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. The church building is located in Headley Way.
History
The church was built in 1960 and designed by Jennings, Homer & Lynch. J.R.R. Tolkien was a parishioner here when he lived in Sandfield Road nearby. He was also a benefactor and his Requiem Mass was held here on 6 September 1973.
See also
References
- ^ "St Anthony of Padua", Oxford (North) Deanery, UK: Communigate.co.uk, retrieved 25 February 2014
- ^ "St Anthony of Padua, Oxford", Parish Directory, UK: The Archdiocese of Birmingham, retrieved 25 February 2014
- ^ Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). "St Anthony of Padua, Church of". The Encyclopaedia of Oxford. Macmillan. p. 377. ISBN 0-333-39917-X.
- ^ Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 336. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
- ^ Cranshaw, Richard; Collier, Ian; Butler, Andrew, eds. (2005). The Tolkien Society Guide to Oxford: The sights of the Oxford of Professor JRR Tolkien CBE. Harmondsworth: The Tolkien Society. p. 24. ISBN 0-905520-17-3.
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