Deanery Mass Times

The Parish of the Immaculate Conception forms part of the Banbury Deanery. Below are the Mass times for the other Catholic churches that make up the Deanery. These are as given in the 2019 edition of the Yearbook of the Archdiocese of Birmingham and are subject to change.

Banbury, St. John the Evangelist - Serving St. Joseph the Worker, Banbury and St. Thomas of Canterbury, Wroxton Address25 South Bar Street TownBanbury CountyOxfordshire PostcodeOX16 9AF Telephone01295 262073 Fax01295 254773 Emailstjohnbanbury@hotmail.com Websitewww.banburycatholicchurches.org.uk Rev. Fr. Richard Walker, Rev. Fr. Christopher Yule Mass had been celebrated for many years at Warkworth Castle and then in Overthorpe when a French emigre priest, Pierre Hersent establised a mission in the town in 1828. The present church was completed ten years later. The arrival of such a dramatic piece or Roman Catholic architecture provoked a hostile reaction from some members of the local Protestant community including an angry pamphlet entitled "The Abomination of Popery Diaplayed". Inside the church the chancel windows, high altar candlesticks and other chancel furnishings are probably by Augustus Pugin as were a rood beam and figures at St. George's Adderbury. Fr. Richartd and Fr. Christopher are Chaplains tro the Horton General Hospital Website	Saturday Vigil Masses 4.00pm Sunday Masses 9.45am, 11.15am, Polish Mass 3.15 pm last Sunday of the month. Holyday Masses See newsletter Weekday Masses See weekly newsletter for Mass times Confession Friday 6.00 - 7.00pm, Saturday 10.30 - 11.00am
Banbury, St. Joseph the Worker - served from St. John the Evangelist, Banbury AddressEdmunds Road TownBanbury CountyOxfordshire PostcodeOX16 0PP Telephone01295 264661 Emailstjoes@btinternet.com Websitewww.banburycatholicchurches.org.uk Rev. Fr. Richard Walker, Rev. Fr. Christopher Yule, Rev. Mr. Henry Allen, Rev. Mr. Robert Hughes. Built in 1965 as a chapel of ease for St. John the Evagelist to serve the growing estates to the west of Banbury it became a parish in its own right in 1968. The church with its dramatic roof and bright, inviting interior was designed by Lucas Ingram and Partners of Banbury. In 1968 the tharched chapel at Wroxton, dedicated to St. Thomas of Canterbury was added to the parish. Website	Saturday Vigil Sunday Masses 10.30am, 5.30 pm. Polish Mass 3.15pm second Sunday of the month Holyday Masses 9.30am Confession Saturday 5.15-5.45pm
Bicester, The Immaculate Conception - serving Holy Trinity, Hethe AddressThe Causway TownBicester CountyOxfordshire PostcodeOX26 7AW Telephone01869 253277 Fax01869 249530 Emailadmin@immaculate-conception.org.uk Websitewww.immaculate-conception.org.uk Very Rev. Canon John Batthula (Dean), Rev. Fr. Robert Carey, Rev. Fr. Pat Arnstrong (retired), Rev. Mr. Michael Panejko, Rev. Mr. Nicholas StJohn In 1869 William North of Wroxton Abbey hired a room in an Italian jeweller's shop to enable a priest from the Parish of the Holy Trinity in Hethe to celebrate the first Mass in Bicester since the Reformation. In 1883 a small school-cum-chapel was built by the then Parish Priest at Hethe, Rev. Fr. Philip Sweeney. Bicester was served by the Servites from Begbroke and other religious as well as from Hethe and Banbury until 1943 when due to petrol shortages during the Second World War Bicester became a parish in its own right. Rev.Fr. Stephan Webb S.J., then at Hethe, became Bicester's first Parish Priest. The present church was built by Rev. Fr. Thomas Foynes and was opened for worship in 1963. In 2011, through the efforts of Rev. Fr. Paul Martin, a much needed parish facility, The John Paul II Centre, was completed and opened by HRH, The Princess Royal, adjacent to the church.	Saturday Vigil Masses 6.00pm Sunday Masses 9.00am, 11.00am Holyday Masses 9.30am, 7.30pm Confession Saturday 11.00-11.30am, 5.00-5.30pm
Brailes, St. Peter and St. Paul - serving Our Lady and St. Michael, Shipston on Stour and St. Francis of Assisi, Kineton AddressFriars Lane TownLower Brailes CountyWarwickshire PostcodeOX15 5HU Telephone01608 685259 Emailbriandoolan@btinternet.com Websitewww.catholicbrailes.org.uk Rev. Fr.David Tams Mainly thanks to the Bishop family, Roman Catholicism survived the Reformation in this village and in 1726 the present chapel was built on the upper floor of an old malt barn belonging to the early seventeenth century manor house. The official Retiurns of Papists presented to Parliament in 1767 records that there were no less than 190 Catholics in the parish. Nestling in the shadow of the splendid medieval parish church, the chapel at Brailes is a very evocative place and retains much of its original furnishings. The rich recusant library and old vestments, some created by the women of the Bishop family, are now at Oscott. Website Vicroria County History	Sunday Masses Saturday, 5.00pm Holyday Masses 11.30am Confession Saturday 10.00-10.30am
Charlbury, St. Teresa of Lisieux - served from Holy Trinity, Chipping Norton AddressFishers Lane TownCharlbury CountyOxfordshire PostcodeOX7 3QR Telephone01608 810576 Websitewww.communigate.co.uk/oxford/stteresacharlbury Rev. Fr. Anthony Joyce STB, Mgr. Bruce Herbert (retired) is in residence. The parish derives from the mission founded at Kiddington Hall, the seat of the Mostyn-Browne family, the last of whom built a small stone chapel designed by Augustus Welby Pugin at Radford in 1840 - plus a convent and a school. THese buildings were sold in 1970 and the priest moved to Charlbury which had long been a capel of ease of Radford. Formerly a Methodist chapel built in 1854, this had been purchased by the diocese for £100 in 1931.	Sunday Masses 9.15am Holyday Masses As announced Other Masses Mass is also said on the second Sunday of the month at 9.00 am at St Kenelm's Anglican Church in Church Enstone
Chipping Norton, Holy Trinity - serving St. Teresa of Lisieux, Charlbury AddressLondon Road TownChipping Norton CountyOxfordshire PostcodeOX7 5AX Telephone01608 642703 Emailholytrinityrcchippy@gmail.com Rev. Fr. Anthony Joyce STB The grand classical building that serves as the parish church, finished in 1836 was paid for by the 15th Earl of Shrewsbury, who is buried in its crypt and is a successor to the chaplaincy maintained at Heythrop by the earl's family. The church has a memorable east window and an attractive Lady Chapel, a later addition, which has a Gothic altar and reredos from Heythrop and furniture from the former Jesuit chapel at Hook Norton. A sacristy was added to the church in 1888. Heythrop College itself was closed in 1979.	Saturday Vigil Masses 6.00pm Sunday Masses 11.00am Holyday Masses Vigil of the feast, 7.00 pm, day of the feast 9.15 am Confession Saturday 5.30-6.00pm
Enstone, St.Kenelm's Church of England Church Bicester Road, Church Enstone, OX7 4NL Served from St. Teresa of Lisieux, Charlbury	Second Sunday of the month, 9.00 am
Hethe, Holy Trinity - served from the Immaculate Conception, Bicester AddressHardwick Road TownHethe PostcodeOX27 8AW Telephone01869 277630 Very Rev. Canon John Batthula (Dean), Rev. Fr. Robert Carey, Rev. Fr. Pat Arnstrong (retired), Rev. Mr. Michael Panejko, Rev. Mr. Nicholas StJohn The Fermors of Tusmore Park had sustained local Catholic life during the suppression. For 200 years Mass was celebrated in a secret chapel in the loft of a farm-house in Hardwick. The present church along with a small school and presbytery were completed in 1832, local farm workers having helped to complete it. Apparently Pugin was asked in 1838 to design an altar for the church but it is not known if he carried out this commission. The sanctuary with its painted walls and statues is worth seeing.	Sunday Masses 10.00am, second and last Sunday of the month 12 noon (Latin) Holyday Masses As announced Confession Sundays 5.00-6.00pm during Holy Hour
Kineton, St. Francis of Assisi - served by Brailes AddressAnvil House Southam Street TownKineton CountyWarwickshire PostcodeCV35 0LP Telephone01926 640275 Emailfrsnams@gmail.com Rev. Fr. David Tams Since 1927 Mass had been celebrated at Kineton in a converted barn. The present church was opened in 1972 and had been designed by Brian Rush & Associates. It is an interesting building with imaginative use of wood and particularly striking statuary. Website Victoria County History	Sunday Masses 11.00am Holyday Masses As announced Confession Sunday after the 11.00am Mass or by appointment
Shipston-on-Stour, Our Lady and St. Michael - served from St. Peter and Paul, Brailes AddressDarlingscote Road TownShipston-on-Stour CountyWarwickshire PostcodeCV36 4GF Telephone01608 685259 Emailbriandoolan@btinternet.com Websitewww.catholicbrailes.org.uk Rev. Fr. David Tams Unusually for a Catholic church, this is the oldest place of worship still in use in the town. Although it has only been in Catholc hands since the late 1970s. It had previously been the chapel for an old people's home and part of a workhouse. Brick built in 1847 in an ealy Victorian Gothic style it was in a ruinous state when the diocese acquired it needing a new roof, new floor and new windows - something of a challenge for its first parish priest, Rev. Fr. David Kenlry. The church has inherited two large statues from the former chapel at Foxcote. Before this church was opened, Mass had been celebrated in the Old Mill Hotel, in a school, above a greengrocer's shop in the High Street and in scout hut. Website	Sunday Masses 9.30am Holyday Masses 9.30am Confession Saturday 11.30am -12 noon and 5.00 - 5.15pm