Oxford Christmas Course 2024

About the course

Come and sing with us at Christmas!    This course is two days – Saturday 21st and Monday 23rd December 2024

This Christmas, we will be singing a range of festive music from around the world. We will include some music history and appreciation, some work on vocal technique, plus some music theory in the form of fun games and exercises for the youngest groups.  More details will be published soon and do get in touch on Samantha@oxbridgesingingschool.com if you have any queries.

Venue to be confirmed soon.

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About the venue

St Barnabas Church, Oxford was opened for worship on 19 October 1869. The land for St Barnabas was given by George Ward who was an Oxford ironmonger, and the benefactor for the Church building was the generous Thomas Combe, Printer to the University, along with his wife, Martha. The Church was essentially built to serve the spiritual needs of the workforce of the nearby Clarendon Press (subsequently the Oxford University Press) on Great Clarendon Street, as well as the residents of the growing west Oxford suburb of Jericho.

As one enters St Barnabas Church, one is struck at the breadth, and height of the interior space, with its majestic mosaic of Christ the King resting above a dramatic gilded canopy or baldacchino over the High Altar and the great openwork iron cross suspended above the nave (based on Fr Montague Noel’s SSC cross and memorably borrowed by Thomas Hardy in Jude the Obscure).

In 2019/2020 the Church and Parish is celebrating its 150th anniversary with a series of celebratory events, services and concerts.