2022 Review

 

Happy New Year, like I normally like to do I will start the first two blogs of the year reviewing the churches I visited last year. This year was more of a to revisit many of the churches I could not get into during the lockdowns we had in the previous two years. The problem of access is still with us as I have to organise for the church to be open on some of my visits. I hope you enjoy looking through the churches I visited

I started the year off with one of the last churches I visited in 2021 St Nicholas Forest Hill which is near Oxford. This I found to be a very pleasant little church to go to though I have to admit parking is a bit of a problem nearby

St Andrew West Bradley really was the last church I visited in 2021 and only because I went with my wife to visit her friend in the village. I popped out to the church to let them catch up

All Saints Wytham marked the first church to be visited in 2022 a nice church to go to even though there was frost on the ground and I had to phone the churchwarden up to let me in

In Febuary I showed St Margaret Binsey just outside Oxford. I'm told it is open 24/7 and if you ever needed a church to visit for some peace then this was it.

All Saints Coleshill is on the far west of Oxfordshire near Swindon if anywhere. It is a church well worth looking up if the roads are a little narrow to get there

St James Sotwell was a revisit for me as I had been here before and found the church locked, this time I arranged for it to be open. The church also marked the first of many revisits to churches I would make.

I had been wanting to visit St Mary Thame for a long time and finally managed it where I came across the grave of Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees. The blog was published in two parts with the second one starting March

I had written a blog before about St Laurence Warborough but I revisited it  the church so I could comprehensive cover the church 

 St Andrews Headington was another church I visited many years before which at the time was locked. I arranged to visit the church when it was open this time while my son was having a scan at the nearby JR hostptal. The church was one I was glad I made the effort to visit again

I ended march with a visit to St Nicholas in Abingdon but my hopes to find it open were soon dashed and there was little to see around the outside. I made a note when it was open for a revisit.My Revisit to St Nicholas Abingdon happened sooner that I expected and I managed to show the inside the following week

The second week of April was taken with St Helen Abingdon  a church I had been to before but not inside, this was shown the following week as there was so much to see inside.

I was back outside Oxford the  following week with a visit to St Lawrence North Hinksey this was another revisit though the previous time it was locked.

The month ended with a revisit  to St Lawrence South Hinksey where I finally got to see a rood loft and go in it though I get the feeling it was a restored one not original

In May I went to Berkshire nest door to Oxfordshire for a visit to St James Leckhapstead a Victorian church which I found rather pretty 

St Bartholomews Yarnton took up the next posts a very attractive church outside Oxford Part two showed the inside

The moth ended with a visit to St Andrews Sandford on Thames where I arrange to have the church open for my visit

In June I went to St Mary and St Nicholas Littlemore which turned out to be locked but let me have a good look around the churchyard

St Peter in Caversham is beside the River Thames on Oxfordshire and I stopped off by chance on my way back from Reading just on the off chance it would be open. It was and I was glad I stopped to look as before it was always locked

St Peter Cassington came about as I noticed it was not far from the church at Yarnton so I made the effort to visit, well worth it.

Back to Berkshire again the last week of June with a visit to St Mary Thatcham which I had been meaning to visit for a long time. There was a memorial to a Victoria Cross winner there I wanted to see. Turned out to be a nice church to visit as well.

Next week I will show the second part of my review of 2022

Till Next Time have a wonderful weekend