Christ Church, Long Hanborough

Ambrosden church

Christ Church in Long Hanborough, built in 1893 to the designs of E. H. L. Barker,  is a small church comprising chancel and nave with south porch and west belfry. The north, south, and west windows are lancets, the east is in 14th-century style. A kitchen and lavatory were added on the north in 1979.  On the north wall of the chancel is a memorial tablet to William Wynne Wilson, rector 1891-1906, who was responsible for building the church.

Historical information about Christ Church is provided by A P Baggs, W J Blair, Eleanor Chance, Christina Colvin, Janet Cooper, C J Day, Nesta Selwyn and S C Townley, 'Hanborough: Church', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 12, Wootton Hundred (South) Including Woodstock, ed. Alan Crossley and C R Elrington (London, 1990), pp. 173-177. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol12/pp173-177 [accessed 6 April 2023].

 

For more information about Christ Church see Hanborough: Church | British History Online (british-history.ac.uk).