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Religious Life

Religious Life in Hook Norton

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  • The Established Church
  • Other Faiths

From late Anglo-Saxon times England had a single Christian faith that followed the belief and practice of the Catholic Church headed by the Pope in Rome. In this parish, that religion centred on St Peter’s Parish Church, which was the focus of communal life through the Middle Ages. After Henry VIII’s break with Rome in the 1530s and the subsequent Protestant Reformation, the character of belief and practice changed but the parish church’s absolute centrality remained until the upheavals of the Great Civil War a century later.

Thereafter the Anglican Church’s predominance was challenged by a series of dissenting sects that insisted on holding their own services and building their own meeting places. These various denominations thrived in Hook Norton from the mid-seventeenth into the twentieth century, even though they were long discriminated against and the Anglican Church retained its privileged position.

This section on religious life is therefore itself divided into two minor sections. The first follows St Peter’s as the Hook Norton home of the official Established Church, first through its Catholic period in the Middle Ages and then into its Anglican supremacy from the 1530s to, nominally, the present day. The second deals with the seven Other Faiths that have appeared and flourished in the parish since 1640. Their enriching presence has been both a testimony to the village’s openness and a cause of its variety and vitality.

© Donald Ratcliffe

26/09/15

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  • Street lighting out, 22nd January January 22, 2021
    Various street lighting out on Goldings Roads these have been out for some months now and makes the area dark. There has also been a couple of break-ins and vehicle thefts. Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): 45 Goldings Road, Hook Norton Report on FixMyStreet
  • Blocked drainage gullies cause flooding in road., 20th January January 20, 2021
    In the dip just past Redlands Farm heading out of Hook Norton the road regularly floods as the drainage gullies across the verges on both sides have been blocked by a recently fallen tree. Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by Bing Maps): Redland Farm Sibford Road, Hook Norton Report […]

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