Holy Trinity Church — Attraction in Oxford

I don’t attend any services at Holy Trinity Church in Headington Quarry. I can’t remember ever going into the church. This review is solely about my personal reasons for visiting the grounds of the church.

My maternal grandparents are buried here so I visit to keep their grave free from weeds and organic debris.

I thought taking on this task would be a chore but I enjoy thinking about them, even though I didn’t know them and only saw my grandmother on her deathbed. It also tends to provoke thoughts about my parents and their lives in rural Oxford. The city must have been full of fields when they were teenagers.

I also enjoy the graveyard’s wonderful trees and greenery and, beyond the cemetery’s stone wall boundary, the gentle slopes and treeline of Stansfeld Park.

CS Lewis is buried in this graveyard but as I’ve never read anything he’s written I have nothing to say about him - other than that J R Tolkien’s grave is in another church on the other side of the city. I thought they knew each other, lived closely to each other, and...

A very peaceful cemetery, known for being the burial place of C.S. Lewis (of Narnia fame) and his brother Warnie. A small glazed window in the church is decorated with Narnia symbols on honor of the author. Much less frequented than J.R.R. Tolkien's Catholic Wolvercote Cemetery on the other side of Oxford (this one's Anglican), and quite a long bus ride away from...

Park on Trinity Road near Mason Arms pub. To find C.S. Lewis’ grave, go through the gate, follow the path, and you’ll see a sign pointing you there. Inside the church there is a window dedicated to Lewis. Standing at this window, turn around 180 degrees and the bench at your right hand has a marker showing where...