Stone Church

St Mary the Virgin Church at Stone-in-Oxney was rebuilt following a serious fire in 1464, and little of any earlier building survives. There is conjecture that St Mary’s stands on the site of a Roman Mithraic temple, although the earliest record of a church here is a document, dated 1265.

Inside of the church stands a Roman Mithraic Alter, this Mithraic Altar stone dates from between the 1st and 4th centuries AD, when Mithraism was popular with the Roman military.

Photography © Jeremy Sage