
Posts in category St James Church
Windows on Time

Completed East Window The Windows in St. James’ Somerton, like the church and the village have a history which can be traced back over several hundred years. The most famous stained glass window, the Whall window, is the subject of a separate presentation. But others are of considerable interest. Repair and restoration of some of […]
THE BLESSING OF THE WATER

A Russian Orthodox Service On Sunday 24th January 2016, during the week of Christian Unity and the Orthodox week of Theophany and with the Bishop’s blessing, we were delighted and privileged to welcome the Russian Orthodox Church of the parish of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Oxford to St. James for the “Blessing of the […]
Nativity Service 2015

NATIVITY SERVICE The Somerton Nativity play took place, as is now tradition, on Christmas Eve at 4pm. A multitude of the heavenly host (average age 4), a donkey, three sheep, four wise (wo)men, a real baby Jesus and the Rt. Hon. Sir Tony Baldry (as Herod) assembled to entertain the congregation. As ever, there had […]
Church Guide

St James, Somerton, Oxfordshire A Guide Introduction TheChurchofSt Jamesin Somerton stands on a knoll to the south of one of the tracks leading down from the tableland to the east to the water meadows along the Cherwell. The church is unusually large and imposing for what has never been a large village. It contains remarkable […]
The work of Henry Wilson

THE WORK OF HENRY WILSON AT ST. JAMES’S CHURCH Restoration ofSt.James church was proposed in 1889, the architect being John Sedding who described the church as ‘of great interest’ for ‘the singularity of its appearance, and its value as a specimen of an Old English church, unspoiled by modern interference’. The restoration was originally conceived […]