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| A simple church gem: St Oswald's Widford |
The other Friday I was out cycling
with good chum Mike.
We peddled through Widford. Now a
tiny hamlet, once a medieval village, the River Windrush hurries past it. We
were a mile or so east of Burford in West Oxfordshire.
We set our
bikes against an Oak and walked across the fields to the church of St. Oswald.
This tiny single cell church is on the site or a Roman villa. Until recently small area of Roman mosaic was
visible in its chancel however this treasure has been carried off to
Cirencester museum.
The church
is a gem, it is the perfect counterpoint
to the grand parish church of Burford. Inside all was delightfully gloomy on a
dull November day.
In his
wonderful book England's Thousand Best
Churches
Simon Jenkins comments
‘The
essence of Widford is simplicity. The pulpit appears to have been made from an
old screen. The box pews are Georgian, the communion rail Jacobean.’
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