Oxford Holy Trinity church 1844-1957
Please could you add this well used Church to your drop down lists.
The church provided over many local family events.
As it is not in drop down.. many people select The churches of the same name in Headington or Witney. Oxford UK.
Thank you for your consideration
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Perhaps someone will see this who could make the addition; perhaps not. The good news is that you can suggest a new place on FamilySearch directly yourself, by going to https://www.familysearch.org/research/places/ -- such suggestions are reviewed directly by the Standards Team at FamilySearch. This approach has a much better chance of success than a post here in Community.
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Looking at the places database, there is one church with that name already in the database: https://www.familysearch.org/research/places/?pagenum=1&pagesize=20&text=2975691&focusedId=2975691
You mention there are three with the same name so I imagine this is one of the wrong ones. Where is the one you want added located? You will have to be sure to clearly specify exactly which one it is when you submit a request to add it.
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For information - the only write-up I can find so far about the 1844-1857 church is the entry for Holy Trinity, Blackfriars Road on https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol4/pp369-412#h3-0027 This is part of the Churches section of the Victoria County History volume for the City of Oxford.
If you zoom in on the map for the place that @Gordon Collett mentions, you will eventually see Blackfriars Rd and Trinity St, inside the triangle bounded by the River Thames, Castle Mill Stream and the A420. According to the maps on the NLS site, this Holy Trinity is at the junction of Blackfriars Rd and Trinity St - see https://maps.nls.uk/view/104195383 for the 25-inch map.
That map does suggest that the co-ordinates for the church Gordon found are slightly out, being on the wrong side of the A420. (My sympathies - finding demolished churches is never easy...)
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Looking at the Places database I see that there are quite a few Holy Trinity Churches. Also, the only name in the database for the one requested is Oxford Holy Trinity. It only shows if one types in that name. Is the problem that most people just type Holy Trinity and so never see the right one? Does Holy Trinity need to be added as an alternate name for Oxford Holy Trinity so it shows up when people are typing in Holy Trinity?
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Thank you for the information. All are correct. The church was located close to the junction of the old Trinity Street. And Blackfriars Road. All Demolished by 1960. Does anyone know if it had a Church yard. My oldest living. Relative who lived close as a boy, Thinks funeral services held there resulted in internment at Mill St cemetery.
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@ianbt37 asked "Does anyone know if it had a Church yard?"
The OS map that was revised in 1939 is on https://maps.nls.uk/view/104195383 - that doesn't seem to allow any space for a graveyard next to the church - the Gas Works is further down Trinity St, and buildings are adjacent on Blackfriars Road.
The http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/burials/burial_grounds/index.html indicates that 3 new cemeteries were built in 1848 allocated to different churches. HT's allocated cemetery appears to be
"Osney Cemetery (or St Mary's Cemetery, Osney) for the four ancient parishes of St Aldate, St Ebbe, St Peter-le-Bailey, and St Thomas, and one relatively new one of 1845 (Holy Trinity)"
Further details on that link.
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@Gordon Collett - I think you may have something with the observation of it not appearing very easily in the list - though I'm not certain your suggestion is the way to go.
If I want to use the place "Oxford" (i.e. the city with the university) in FamilySearch FamilyTree and type "Oxford" in the Tree interface, I'm not seeing the city of Oxford in the resulting dropdown list... I'm getting a farm in South Africa, a hamlet in Australia, a townland in Ireland in front of the university city. This seems odd prioritisation... I have to go to "Oxford, Oxf" before the city of "Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom" appears in the dropdown list. Even typing "Oxford, Ox" isn't good enough - the dropdown contains only 4 items, none of which is the University City.
So finding "Oxford" seems a little odd to start with.
The oddities continue if I try to use the church of "St. Giles" in Oxford. The standard placename is
St Giles' Church, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
If I type "st giles, oxford," then I don't see the city church in the drop-down list - plenty in Oxfordshire, but not Oxford.
Again, I have to go to "st giles, oxford, oxf" (3 letters of the county) to put the desired city church in the drop-down.
For the church in question, "holy trinity, oxf" finds various HT churches in Oxfordshire, but not the one that @ianbt37 needs.
On the other hand, "Oxford Holy" brings up the church as 2nd in the drop-down list.
My personal opinion is that the standard placename "Oxford Holy Trinity, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom" is formatted incorrectly - it doesn't match the other Oxford churches that I can see, which are of the pattern "dedication Church, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom". Also, the current name doesn't even make it clear that the church is in Oxford because Oxford isn't a separate node of the placename.
I think I will submit a change request to rename it to
"Holy Trinity Church, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom"
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Whilst trying to find out more detail about the church I came across this page, which might be of interest:
See: https://www.roll-of-honour.com/Oxfordshire/OxfordHolyTrinity.html.
Looking further, all I could find was the page for which (coincidentally) Adrian Bruce (as I have just found!) posted a link earlier today.
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Thank you all for your reply’s.. I have looked at the web sites you all recommend in the past. The WW 1. Wall plaque from the church links in with some distant family members lost.
I have found areal photo that shows the church and the gas works in Blackfriars Road as your map shows no sign of room for grave yard.
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The main name of this church is now in the Standard Places database as
Holy Trinity Church, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
As suggested above, IIRC, I have to type "holy trinity, oxford, oxf" to get that as a suggestion, but it is the top of the list then.
Thanks to the Places team.
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