Open Day at St Katherine's Church Chiselhampton
St Katherine's Church, Chiselhampton, Oxfordshire
Refreshments available all day with church tours available in the afternoon.
St Katherine's church will be open for this joint Heritage Open Day/Ride and Stride event. This delightful church is outstanding for the completeness and beauty of its Georgian furnishings and arrangement.
John Betjeman honoured it in verse in 1952 and made a personal appeal for funds to support it. It is a striking, stuccoed building with curious classical details and a clock turret resembling those on stable blocks of the period. Inside it is lit through clear glass in round-headed south windows and, apart from an earlier pulpit, the woodwork, including the altar-piece, box pews and gallery, is all contemporary.
Light refreshments will be available by donation. Free tours will be available from 1 to 4pm provided by a descendant of Charles Peers, the gentleman who rebuilt the church in the 1760s. Come and visit this delightful church and enjoy its Georgian splendor.