Summertown : St Michael and A.Angels

Designed by the Gothic Revival Architect, A M Mowbray (1849-1915) to a cruciform arrangement The parish originated as part of Saint Giles, Oxford, when the chapel of Saint John the Baptist was completed in Middle Way in 1832. It was a chapel of ease until 1834, when it was made a separate ecclesiastical parish. St Michael and All Angels was built in 1908–09.

About this church

The building as designed by Mowbray has never been completed. It has a chancel, north and south transepts, vestry, and a south chapel beside the chancel, but the nave and north and south aisles comprise only one bay ending in a “temporary” west wall that has stood for more than a century. The building is coursed rubblestone apart from the temporary west wall, which is brick.

It is substantial in scale and has a statue of St. Michael by Michael Groser and a reredos painted by Leon Underwood.St. Michael’s is described as being in a “vaguely Italian renaissance style” but the building is slightly limited by its corner site.

Ride and Stride

Taking part: Yes

Church building will be Open

Toilet?: Yes

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