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Surviving burial registers in Oxford


The earliest surviving burial register for the churches in the city of Oxford are as follows:

  • All Saints Church
    High Street. Now Lincoln College Library
    1561
  • St Aldate’s Church
    St Aldate’s Street
    1678
  • St Clement’s Church
    Formerly on the Plain (new church built on Marston Road)
    1666
  • St Cross (Holywell) Church (now Balliol Historic Collections Centre)
    St Cross Road
    1653
  • St Ebbe’s Church
    Pennyfarthing Place
    1558
  • St Giles’s Church
    St Giles’s Street
    1695
  • St John the Baptist Church
    (Merton College Chapel), Merton Street
    1617
  • St Martin’s (Carfax) Church
    Carfax (demolished except for tower)
    1562
  • St Mary Magdalen Church
    Magdalen Street
    1602
  • St Mary the Virgin Church
    High Street
    1599
  • St Michael at the North Gate Church
    St Michael’s Street
    1616
  • St Peter in the East Church
    Queen’s Lane. Now St Edmund Hall Library
    1559
  • St Peter le Bailey Church
    Formerly at Bonn Square: Old memorials moved to new church in New Inn Hall Street (now St Peter’s College Chapel)
    1585
  • St Thomas the Martyr Church
    Becket Street
    1667

The following churches are just outside the boundary of the old city:

  • St Andrew’s Church
    Headington
    1683
  • St James’s Church
    Cowley
    1696
  • St Mary the Virgin Church
    Iffley
    1572
  • St Nicholas’s Church
    Marston
    1653
  • St Margaret of Antioch
    Binsey
    1597

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