University Church of St Mary the Virgin
The University Church of St Mary the Virgin is an Anglican church in Oxford situated on the north side of the High Street. It is the centre from which the University of Oxford grew and its parish consists almost exclusively of university and college buildings.Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Church
- Denomination: Anglican
- Description: church in central Oxford, UK
- Also known as: “St Mary the Virgin” and “The University Church”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include All Souls College and Brasenose College.
All Souls College
University
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All Souls College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows.
Brasenose College
University
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Brasenose College, formally The Principal and Scholars of the King's Hall and College of Brasenose in Oxford, or BNC, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.
Radcliffe Camera
Library
The Radcliffe Camera is a building of the University of Oxford, England, designed by James Gibbs in a Baroque style and built in 1737–49 to house the Radcliffe Science Library.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oxford and Grandpont.
Oxford
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Oxford is the oldest university city in the United Kingdom, some 50 miles to the west of the capital London in its own county of Oxfordshire, on the rivers Thames and Cherwell.
Grandpont
Quarter
Grandpont is a mainly residential area in south Oxford, England. It is west of Abingdon Road, and consists mainly of narrow streets that run at right angles to the main road, with terraced late-Victorian and Edwardian houses.
Jericho
Suburb
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Jericho is a historic suburb of the English city of Oxford. It consists of the streets bounded by the Oxford Canal, Worcester College, Walton Street and Walton Well Road.
University Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Categories: university church, building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.75277° or 51° 45′ 10″ northLongitude
-1.25377° or 1° 15′ 14″ westOpen location code
9C3WQP3W+4FOpenStreetMap ID
way 60903337OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=anglicanWikidata ID
Q581986
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“University Church of St Mary the Virgin” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Església Universitària de Santa Maria Verge”
- Chinese: “圣母玛利亚大学教堂”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كنيسه جامعة القديسه مريم العذراء”
- Esperanto: “Universitata Kirko de Sankta Maria la Virgulino”
- French: “église universitaire St Mary the Virgin”
- French: “Église universitaire St Mary the Virgin”
- German: “Church of St Mary the Virgin”
- Japanese: “オックスフォード大学聖メアリー教会”
- Japanese: “セント・メアリ教会 (オックスフォード)”
- Japanese: “聖母マリア大学教会”
- Malay: “Gereja Universiti St Mary Si Perawan”
- Persian: “کلیسای دانشگاهی مریم باکره”
- Spanish: “iglesia de Santa Maria la Virgen”
- Spanish: “iglesia de Santa María la Virgen”
- Spanish: “Iglesia Universitaria de Santa María la Virgen”
- Swedish: “University Church of St Mary the Virgin”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Mary the Virgin Grounds and The Rhodes Building (north range), Oriel College.
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