English Heritage sites near Horspath Parish
NORTH HINKSEY CONDUIT HOUSE
5 miles from Horspath Parish
Roofed conduit for Oxford's first water mains, constructed during the early 17th century.
ABINGDON COUNTY HALL MUSEUM
7 miles from Horspath Parish
This splendid 17th century Baroque building housed a courtroom for assizes, raised on arches over a market space. It now houses the Abingdon Museum.
NORTH LEIGH ROMAN VILLA
13 miles from Horspath Parish
The remains of a large, well built Roman courtyard villa. The most important feature is a nearly complete mosaic tile floor, patterned in reds and browns.
MINSTER LOVELL HALL AND DOVECOTE
16 miles from Horspath Parish
The extensive and picturesque ruins of a 15th century riverside manor house, including a fine hall, south-west tower, and complete dovecote nearby. The home of Richard III's henchman Lord Lovell.
DEDDINGTON CASTLE
18 miles from Horspath Parish
Extensive earthworks marking the site of an 11th century motte and bailey castle.
UFFINGTON CASTLE - WHITE HORSE AND DRAGON HILL
21 miles from Horspath Parish
Three atmospheric sites lie along the Ridgeway. Uffington 'Castle' is a large Iron Age hillfort, Dragon Hill a natural mound associated in legend with St George.
Churches in Horspath Parish
St Giles, Horspath
Church Road
Horspath
Oxford
07856 456 363
http://www.gchparishes.co.uk
St Giles' church is of twelfth-century origin, with a tower and west door of the fourteenth-century and nineteenth-century chancel, north nave wall and north transcept. There is much good stained glass ranging from 1280 to the present day and a ring of six bells cast between 1602 and 1866. In recent years the fourteenth-century south transcept was opened out to give extra space for services and is now the children's area. In 2004 the chancel screen was removed to the west tower arch, revealing the attractive Victorian chancel. There is an Oxford-built organ of 1880.
The patronage of St. Giles was passed from the hosptial of St. John the Baptist (at the East gate of Oxford) to Magdalen College, until 1949, when it passed to the Oxford Diocesan Board of Patronage. In 1980 the Rector of St Mary's Garsington became priest in charge of St Giles, and the parish of Cuddesdon was added in 1997, thus comprising the cluster within the Wheatley Team Ministry until 2013 when the three parishes of Garsington, Cuddesdon and Horspath became a benefice within the Shotover group.
For more information please visit our website at www.gchparishes.co.uk
Pubs in Horspath Parish
Gurkha Palace & The Chequers Inn
The Green, Horspath, OX33 1RP
(01865) 634534
thegurkhapalace.co.uk
Oxford Brewery Tap
Coopers Yard, Manor Farm Road, Horspath, OX33 1SD
(01865) 604620
oxfordbrewery.co.uk