News

The Burford Singers can always be relied upon to deliver the goods, and Sunday’s performance was probably the best I’ve heard from them yet. It helped that they had a particularly inspiring ...
This week's Bells on Sunday comes from the church of St John the Baptist, Burford in Oxfordshire. Described by the architectural historian David Verey as "a complicated building which has ...
While some cathedrals have similar displays, they are rare in parish churches. The Friends of Burford Church is a charity set up around 80 years ago to improve the church and unite those who value it.
A historic Milwaukee church that draws worshipers to its Latin Mass is renovating a neighboring former commercial property into a parish center.. An affiliate of St. Stanislaus Catholic Church ...
The Rev. Spruille Burford, Rector of St. Timothy's Protestant Episcopal Church, an nounced yesterday, after the morning service, that he had decided to resign.
An Oxfordshire church held a festival last weekend, reviving the ancient tradition of parish ale. The Wantage Parish Ale Festival was held on June 7 and featured food, drink and dancing. In the ...
The tiny Oxfordshire town named on Forbes list of Most Idyllic Places gears up for influx of Americans. By LAURA WILLIAMSON FOR MAILONLINE Updated: 05:39 EDT, 17 April 2009 ...
A man has died in a crash involving two cars near an Oxfordshire town. The accident happened at about 12:50 GMT in Sunday on the A424 around half-a-mile north of Burford, just after the junction ...
An Oxfordshire woman has been jailed for stealing more than £161,000 from parish councils. Joanne Wills, 47, of Crowell Hill, Chinnor, worked at Towersey Parish Council and Chinnor Parish Council.
A clerk who defrauded two parish councils out of more than £160,000 has been jailed for four years. Joanne Wills, 47, stole £135,000 from Towersey Parish Council in Oxfordshire between December ...
An Oxfordshire church which had lead stolen from its roof has been treated with a theft detection liquid. Firefighters used ladders and a hydraulic platform to spray Wantage Parish Church's roof ...
The parish church of St John the Baptist was in the top 20 of Simon Jenkins’s England's Thousand Best Churches. The mainly 15th century church ... Oxfordshire Cotswold region.” The Burford ...