Religious Sites
The Church of England parish church of Saint Thomas of Canterbury is Norman, built early in the 12th century. The bell-stage of St. Thomas's bell tower was added in the 15th century and has a ring of eight bells. The church hall was added in 1901.
A priory of Augustinian nuns was built late in the 12th century with its own priory church adjoining St. Thomas's. The priory survived until the early part of the 16th century when it was suppressed in the Dissolution of the Monasteries and then demolished. The foundations of the priory church, cloister, dormitory, vestry, chapter house and parlour were excavated in 1892.
Goring Free Church is a member of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion. The congregation was founded in 1788 and its first chapel was built in 1793. At its centenary in 1893 a new church building was added and the original chapel became the church hall.
The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady and Saint John was designed by the architect William Ravenscroft and built in 1898. It is now part of a single parish with the Roman Catholic Church of Christ the King in Woodcote.
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