St Mary-le-More Church, Wallingford
St Mary le More (to give its full title, as opposed to St Mary the Less, which also existed in Wallingford in medieval times) is not the oldest of the present churches in our town. That honour goes to St Leonard’s Church, on the river bank, which dates back to Saxon times. There has been a church on the market square, however, since Norman times, and we know that that church was rebuilt at the end of the 13th century. The church you now see in the market place was largely rebuilt in 1854 at the cost of £2,400. The last major renewal took place in 2009–10.
Parking
The many car parks in the town are mostly free on Sundays.
February 2018
The Lost World of Bletchley Park with Sinclair McKay
St. Mary-le-More, Wallingford
LITERARY EVENT Join author Sinclair McKay in a fascinating exploration of wartime Bletchley Park. Accompanied by illustrations never seen before from the Bletchley Park archive this talk partners the publication of the first official illustrated history of the World War Two Codebreaking Centre – The Lost World Of Bletchley Park. Home to some of Britain’s most brilliant mathematical minds, including Alan Turing, this beautiful Buckinghamshire country house was the scene of the most famous codebreaking achievement of all time: the…
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Come and Sing Tippett Five Spirituals
St. Mary-le-More, Wallingford
Tom Appleton workshop leader and conductor Explore and sing Michael Tippett's Five Spirituals with the Come and Sing Company and a team of professional soloists. The five spirituals form part of Tippett’s composition A Child of Our Time – an oratorio composed between 1939 and 1941. Immediately before he began the composition, Tippett was undergoing psychotherapy in order to come to terms with his sexuality and to address his self-worth as an artist. The work was also inspired by external events…
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Oliver Soden on Michael Tippett
St. Mary-le-More, Wallingford
Gramophone’s review of the first full length biography of Tippett’s life praises Oliver Soden as he ‘brings Tippett to living, breathing life as if he has justwalked into the room’. Join him at the Chiltern Arts Festival Choral Day as he invites us into Tippett’s world and discusses A Child of Our Time, the Five Spirituals and Tippett himself – interspersed with musical performances from the Chiltern Arts Come and Sing Choir under direction of the Come and Sing Company. Please note:…
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