Our Churches
Thames Isis Pastoral Area
For general enquiries about all of the Parishes
within the Thames Isis pastoral area, please contact
the Coordinating Pastor’s office below.
Alternatively please scroll down for individual
information, locations and contact details for each
individual Parish.
Coordinating Pastor’s Office
60 Abingdon Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire. OX1 4PE
Coordinating Pastor Rev Paul King

Telephone: 01865 247986
Please see individual parishes and churches below
Abingdon parish
The Abingdon parish serves the most northern part
of the Thames Isis pastoral area and comprises the
Church of Our Lady and St Edmund of Abingdon.

Our Lady and St Edmund of Abingdon,
1 Oxford Road, Abingdon, Oxfordshire. OX14 3PL
Telephone 01235 559754

Parish priest Rev Jamie McGrath
Administrator Billy Lester
Didcot parish
The Parish of Didcot and Wallingford comprises
two churches – English Martyrs, Didcot, and St John
The Evangelist, Wallingford. Father David O'Sullivan
serves both communities and regular daily and Sunday
masses are shared across both churches.

English Martyrs,
English Martyrs, Didcot
Address 15 Manor Crescent, Didcot, Oxfordshire. OX11
7AJ
Telephone 01235 812338

Parish priest Rev David O'Sullivan
Administrator Mrs Joanna Robins
East Hendred Parish
The East Hendred parish comprises the Churches of
St Mary’s, East Hendred and St Patrick’s, East
Ilsley, and the parish also serves West Ilsley,
Compton and neighbouring Dowland villages through
some services at the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin
and the Chapel of St Amand and St John The Baptist.
All churches are coordinated by the Priest-In-Charge
Rev Dom Terence Fitzpatrick.

Priest-in-Charge: Rev Dom Terence Fitzpatrick
c/o Holy Trinity Monastery
St Mary’s Road
East Hendred
Oxfordshire
OX12 8LF
07973 295927
Parish Business email:
Churches & Chapels
St Mary
St Mary's Road, East Hendred
St Patrick
Old Stanmore Road, East Ilsley
Chapel of St Amand and St John the Baptist
Hendred House, High Street, East Hendred

Chapel of the Blessed Virgin
Milton Manor House, High Street, Milton

Oratory of the Holy Trinity, East Hendred.

North Hinksey parish
There are four churches in the North Hinksey
parish. Sunday mass is celebrated in two of the
churches – Our Lady of the Rosary in Yarnell’s Hill
(which is the parish church), and Holy Rood Church
on Abingdon Road near the city centre. There is a
weekday mass in each of the other two chapels.

Our Parish priest, Father Paul
King and our Deacon Richard Budgen
Our Lady of the Rosary
Yarnells Hill, North Hinksey, Oxford

Holy Rood
Folly Bridge, Folly Bridge, Oxford

St Thomas More
Grace Dieu, Foxcombe Road, Boars Hill, Oxford

The Good Shepherd
Bagley Wood Road, Kennington, Oxford

All served by:
Holy Rood Lodge,
Folly Bridge,
Abingdon Road,
North Hinksey,
Oxford,
Oxfordshire. OX1 4LD
Telephone 01865 247986
Fax 01865 247986
Rev Paul King -
01865 247986
Deacon Rev Richard Budgen
Parish Secretary
Richard Pickett -
01865 247986
Wallingford parish
St John the Evangelist, Market Place, Wallingford
The Parish of Didcot and Wallingford comprises
two churches – English Martyrs, Didcot, and St John
The Evangelist, Wallingford. Father David O'Sullivan
serves both communities and regular daily and Sunday
masses are shared across both churches.


Served by Didcot:
15 Manor Crescent,
Didcot,
Oxfordshire.
OX11 7AJ
Telephone 01235 812338
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