The Church of St Anthony of Padua, Oxford[3] is a yellow brick-built Catholic church in suburb of Headington, east Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. The church building is located in Headley Way.[1][2]
History
The church was built in 1960 and designed by Jennings, Homer & Lynch.[4] 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.[5]
See also
References
- ^ a b "St Anthony of Padua", Oxford (North) Deanery, UK: Communigate.co.uk, retrieved 25 February 2014
- ^ a b "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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