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Stratton-on-the-Fosse is our oldest local parish.
The mission established in 1814 has Baptismal
registers dating back to 1818. The present
church and parish centre were built to the
designs of Charles Hansom and completed in
1857. It was extended in 1913 when the present
spire was built. Its interior, which reflected
the tastes of the longest serving parish priest,
Dom Ethelbert Horne, was for the first half
of the 20th Century an exuberant Mediaevalist
experience complete with Rood Screen. Dom Ethelbert
served Stratton for fifty years and other parish
priests included the first two Archbishops
of Sydney, Dom Bede Polding and Dom Bede Vaughan,
as well as Dom Gregory Murray whose post-Vatican
II taste produced the present liturgical arrangements.
Baron Friedrich von Hugel (1852-1925) is buried
in the extensive Churchyard.
8.00 a.m.
6.00 p.m.
7.30 a.m.
Right Rev. Dom Aidan Bellenger
Tel 01761 235119
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