Not long after passing the Lamb & Flag pub, we came across the impressive, old-looking St. Giles' church in Oxford:
Have just read that St. Giles' church is famous for its choir and bell-ringing, and dates back to the late 11th/early 12th century, although it was not consecrated until the year 1200 by St. Hugh, the Bishop of Lincoln.
From the year 1139, St. Giles' church was the property of the newly created, (Benedictine) Godstow Abbey, and remained as such until 1539 when Godstow Abbey surrendered it and all its land to the English Crown during Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries (1536-1541).
Have just read that the modern-day St. Giles' church reaches out to the fringes of society (have also seen Anglican churches in Canterbury, Kent and Keswick, the Lake District allowing homeless people to camp on their ground):
The tomb below looked incredibly old:
It was a pity that we didn't have enough time to look inside St. Giles' church.
We passed St. Giles' church hall a short distance away, which looked like another building worthy of investigation:
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