Editing Goring-on-Thames (section)

==Religious sites==

[[File:St Thomas of Canterbury, Goring.jpg|thumb|Church of St Thomas of Canterbury]]

The [[Church of England parish church]] of [[St Thomas of Canterbury]] displays [[Norman architecture]] of the early 12th century,<ref name=Sherwood614>Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, p. 614.</ref> with the bell-stage of a [[bell tower]] added in the 15th century.<ref name=Sherwood614/> This has a [[change ringing|ring]] of eight bells,<ref>[http://www.odgreadingbranch.co.uk/towers/goring.html The Oxford Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers, Reading Branch: Goring-on-Thames] {{webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20120906095958/http://www.odgreadingbranch.co.uk/towers/goring.html |date=6 September 2012}}</ref> one dating from 1290. The wood for the [[rood screen]] was taken from {{HMS|Thunderer |1783|6}}, one of [[Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson|Nelson]]'s fleet at [[Battle of Trafalgar|Trafalgar]].<ref>Christopher Winn: ''I Never Knew That about the Thames'' (London: Ebury Press, 2010), p. 77.</ref> A church hall was added in 1901.<ref name=Sherwood615>Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, p. 615.</ref>

The Anglican Churches of Goring, Streatley and South Stoke form a united [[benefice]].<ref>[http://www.st-marys-streatley.org.uk/ Services. Retrieved 21 April 2019.]</ref> A [[priory]] of [[Augustinians|Augustinian]] nuns was built late in the 12th century with its own priory church adjoining St Thomas's.<ref name=Sherwood614/> This survived until demolished with the early 16th-century [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]].<ref>Page, 1907, pp. 103–104.</ref> The foundations of the priory church, [[cloister]], dormitory, [[vestry]], [[chapter house]] and parlour were excavated in 1892.<ref name=Sherwood615/> 

Goring Free Church belongs to the [[Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion]]. The congregation was founded in 1788 and its first [[chapel]] built in 1793.<ref name=FreeChurch>{{Cite web |url=http://www.goringfreechurch.org.uk/History.html |title=Goring Free Church: Our History}}</ref> At its centenary in 1893, a new church building was added<ref name=Sherwood615/> and the original chapel converted into a church hall.<ref name=FreeChurch/> It holds two Sunday services.<ref>[https://www.goringfreechurch.org.uk/ Service times. Retrieved 21 April 2019.]</ref> 

The [[Catholic Church]] of [[Mary (Mother of Jesus)|Our Lady]] and St [[John the Apostle]] was designed by the architect William Ravenscroft and built in 1898.<ref name=Sherwood615/> It now forms a single parish with the Roman Catholic Church of Christ the King in [[Woodcote#Churches|Woodcote]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ourladyandstjohngoring.org.uk/ |title=Our Lady & St John in Goring-on-Thames and of Christ the King in Woodcote |website=ourladyandstjohngoring.org.uk}}</ref>