The Church of the Holy Cross, Shipton on Cherwell

Shipton-on-Cherwell is a very small village on the Oxford Canal near the River Cherwell. Now most of the houses in the village are rather plain 20th century properties but before these were built the village would have been tiny, comprising little more than the manor house and church. The parish church, right on the bank of the Oxford Canal, is the Church of the Holy Cross. The present church is a Georgian Gothic Revival building which was designed by the artist William Turner who lived at the manor house. A memorial chancel screen was installed in the church in 1896 with a brass plaque reading "Erected in memory of William Turner of Oxford, Water Colour Painter and architect of this church." In the churchyard is a mediaeval preaching cross.

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