A retreat is your chance to step aside from life for a while, to rest and just 'be' in a welcoming, peaceful place.
The Oxford Well
Retreat Centre Description
In this busy world of high demand and constant availability spaces of quiet calm are hard to come by.
The Oxford Well offers one of those spaces - one that helps to slow down, connect deeply and come away refreshed.
Whether you are after a group retreat or long for individually tailored one-to-ones:
the space offered is shaped with care, attentiveness, and depth.
The Oxford Well is located in East Oxford with only a short ride to the Oxford City Centre.
Our retreats, pilgrimages, and spiritual soul-care offerings in Oxford are rooted in the Christian contemplative tradition and designed to support sustainable wellbeing within the realities of daily life.
Accommodation on Offer
We are a small venture located in a home.
Day retreats are non-residential and for individually guided retreats you can either come for just the day or can book a night in conjunction (pending availability). We have just one room available to rent.
The facilities you have access to when you access either a day retreat or an individual stay include a prayer-room, a shared open plan kitchen-dining-living area and a garden with several outdoor seating spaces.
Some art materials can be made available on request or you are welcome to bring your own.
Retreat Centre Facilities
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Types of Retreat Offered
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2026 Events
Over the summer The Oxford Well facilitates a number of Day Pilgrimages.
This years focus is walking in the footsteps of St Frideswide, Patron Saint of Oxford.
Upcoming dates are:
- Friday 24.07.26
- Sunday 09.08.26
- Monday 17.08.26
- Monday 24.08.26
For more info and to book click here.
Our Christian Day Retreats in Oxford are intentionally short and intimate, making them accessible alongside work, family, and everyday commitments.
Each of our retreats follows a theme that explores such meeting places of faith and daily life, gently noticing where God may already be present.
Creativity also plays a role as it invites deeper attentiveness to both our inner life and embodied experience.
Upcoming Day Retreats facilitated by The Oxford Well are:
"Rooted - what Trees can teach us about God and life"Thursday 20.08.26 and Saturday 14.11.26, both held at Stanton House.
To book via the Stanton House website click here
Retreat Centre Location
Oxford OX4, UK
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The Oxford Well
Oxford OX4, UK