Church of St Mary the Virgin | |
Location: | Wheatley, Oxfordshire, England |
Denomination: | Church of England |
Province: | Canterbury |
Diocese: | Oxford |
Website: | https://www.achurchnearyou.com/wheatley-st-mary-the-virgin/ |
The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a parish church in Wheatley, Oxfordshire, in the Church of England Diocese of Oxford.
The church was designed by George Edmund Street and built in 1855–57 in the Gothic Revival style.[1] [2] It is listed at Grade II*.
A past vicar of the church was the Reverend Hubert Brasier, father of former British Prime Minister Theresa May, who was married at the church.[3]
The churchyard contains three Commonwealth war graves, of a Wiltshire Regiment soldier of World War I, and a Royal Navy sailor and Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry soldier of World War II.[4]