The mornings are beginning to have that nip in the air which marks the end of high summer and the start of the autumn mists and mellow fruitfulness.

 ‘That woman… is a woman!’ So declares the shocked Sir Edmund Tilney at the sight of a woman playing a female role in a Shakespeare play (Shakespeare in Love).

From Jonathan Arnold, Chaplain of Worcester College, Oxford

A hatchment that had hung neglected in the ringing chamber of the tower of All Saints has been restored and now hangs resplendently in the nave over the north door, a particularly appropriate position because this was the door through which Bishops of Oxford, resident in the Palace just to the north of the church from the seventeenth century through to the 1970s, would have entered All Saints.