St Mary the Virgin, Wheatley

The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a parish church in Wheatley, Oxfordshire, in the Church of England Diocese of Oxford.

Church of St Mary the Virgin
St Mary's Church and graveyard
Location	Wheatley, Oxfordshire, England
Denomination	Church of England
Website	https://sites.google.com/stmaryswheatley.org/stmaryswheatley/home
Administration
Province	Canterbury
Diocese	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*.^[3]

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.^[4]

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.^[5]

Further reading

• Brasier, Hubert (1973). A guide to the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Wheatley. Gloucester, U.K.: British Publishing Co. ISBN 9780714009742. OCLC 877235253.