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St Mary's Church OX4 4EJ
Iffley Church is always open. People come here for celebration and solace, and to immerse themselves in the history and beauty of this place...
St Mary's Church OX4 4EJ
IFFLEY CHURCH was built in the 1160s and our SPECIAL EVENTS this year will focus on England and Europe in the 12th century.
There will be three days of talks and workshops on the lives of ordinary people and the artistic, political and religious context that was expressed in Romanesque and early Gothic architecture.
Hands-on activities include our regular Drawing Day-School on Saturday 29 June, a lecture/workshop on Manuscripts and illumination, and a lecture/workshop on Secular Music of the time.
All events start in the Church Hall. For event details see below
Saturday 18 May, 2.00 - 5.00 Iffley Church Hall OX4 4EG
The canons of St Frideswide’s Priory relaunched what later became Christ Church Cathedral in the 12th century. The Priory became a locally renowned place of pilgrimage attracting large numbers of women looking for healing for themselves and their families. Surviving miracle stories show the concern that the canons took for local pastoral care, and their efforts to reach equally 'the rich and the poor, the small with the great’.
Programme
2.00 Dr Andrew Dunning, St Frideswide’s Legacy: Literature and Local Care in Twelfth-Century Oxford
3.00 Dr Anne Bailey, St Frideswide’s Female Pilgrims in the Middle Ages
4.00 Tea
Tickets for the whole afternoon £15 on the door or online at
Saturday 29 June 10.30-5.30 Iffley Church and Church Hall
Drawing Day-school with artists Sally Levell and Phil Whiting. Spend a day looking at and drawing Iffley Church, a spectacular Romanesque building.
The day-school is intended for amateurs aged 15+ to try their hand at drawing aspects of St Mary's Church and its surroundings. They will work on paper with a range of drawing techniques under the guidance of artists: Sally Levell and Phil Whiting.
A picnic lunch and all materials will be provided.
Details and Tickets £25 online at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/drawing-iffley-church-tickets-852793878447?aff=oddtdtcreator
Saturday 13 July, 2.00 - 5.15 Iffley Church Hall OX4 4EG
Find out about how ancient Rome influenced the builders of Iffley Church, and try your hand at designing a manuscript illumination!
How did twelfth-century church builders interpret the legacy of the past? How did visual signals in buildings and in books demonstrate values and beliefs that were to be passed on to future generations?
Programme
2.00 Dr Emily Winkler, Thinking about Rome in Twelfth-Century English Churches
3.00 Tea
3.45 Dr Stewart Tiley, “Monsters? Or bunnies?”: an introduction to medieval manuscripts and their illumination.
Tickets for the whole afternoon £15 on the door or online at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-on-the-past-writing-for-the-future-tickets-877295824427?aff=oddtdtcreator
Sunday 8 September, 2.00 - 5.15 Iffley Church Hall OX4 4EG
Discover an expanding world where crusaders, pilgrims and scholars journeyed to the frontiers of Christian Europe over the course of the 12th century and encountered Arabic scholarship. Teresa Witcombe works on Muslim-Christian relations in medieval Spain.
Medieval music specialist Ian Pittaway explores the music, instruments, and musical movements of the 12th century, when Iffley Church was built, and the 13th century, when it was altered. Hear Ian play the medieval harp, simfonia, gittern and citole; learn about the influence of the Occitan troubadours on English music; and join in with medieval polyphonic song.
Programme
2.00 Talk by Dr Teresa Whitcombe, An expanding world: conflict, connection and music in 12th century Europe
3.00 Tea
3.45 Lecture/workshop with Ian Pittaway, Medieval musical movements of the 12th-13th century
Tickets for the whole afternoon £15 on the door or online at
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