St Barnabas Church Jericho Oxford.

Went for a walk  in a place 

I know but I have  never walked a few streets back off the main road,  

I did a few weeks back  and this is what I found. 

ST BARNABAS CHURCH

JERICHO OXFORD

St Barnabas was built to minister to the spiritual and practical needs of the poor and labouring classes. The parish was formed from that of St Paul, Oxford, in 1869; St Paul's was in turn formed from parts of the parishes of St Thomas and St Giles. The church was founded by Thomas Combe (1796–1872), Superintendent of the Oxford University Press close to the church, and his wife Martha (1806–1893), now commemorated by a blue plaque installed by the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board.

They were supporters of the Oxford Movement (or Tractarian movement).
The first Parish Priest was Fr Montague Noel, SSC.


Below we have the 

Campanile.

I would of said tower 

but it is the description on Wikipedia. 

Campanile is Italian, derives from the word Campana 

meaning Bell, is synonymous with bell tower. 

 

I entered the church at 17:45 and this is how dark it was !

Just me and the vicar in there. Actually didn't know the vicar
was in there until the music started playing!!!!

Didn't stay long. 

 

 

You can just spot the Vicar if you look closely ..near the bottom on the left sat

at the organ or piano ..

 

The church is built with 3 Architectural types

 

Victorian , Romanesque and Italianate..

 

Please click on links to read more info.

 

 

A few days later I went back to have a look

in daylight .. this is the day I got kidnapped for the choir..

(those that follow me on Facebook will know)

 

 

 

Surprising what you find when you go out walking into an area

you have not walked before.

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A lovely Surprise Postcard from .............

 My lovely friend ..

 

Diane in Liverpool .

 

A wonderful SURPRISE!!

 

Also a big  thank you to her husband Ian ,

who chose the card..

 

Diane has a fabulous blog, she is such a great writer

and I am sure you will enjoy reading it.

She belongs to a group called ABCW, where they have to

write about a subject, place or anything to do with

the letter of the week, maybe month.

 

Go over and have a read ♥

 

I have tried to identify the buildings and link to them

but came a bit stuck on the Web.

Hopefully Diane will help me out.♥

 

 

Liverpool ..

 

is a maritime city in northwest England, where the River Mersey meets the Irish Sea. A key trade and migration port from the 18th to the early 20th centuries, it's also, famously, the hometown of The Beatles. Ferries cruise the waterfront, where the iconic mercantile buildings known as the "Three Graces" – Royal Liver Building, Cunard Building and Port of Liverpool Building –

stand on the Pier Head.

 

 

I will do more Postcard posts when I am settled.

 

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