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land and 4 water; St. Peter le Bailey, II ; St. Thomas, and the sacred monograms, and oak choir stalls li"Er& 671 land and 41 of water; Holywell, 238 land and II provided in 1902: statuary representing the Annnncia· water. tion is placed on either side of the east window, and in Rateable Values within the Oxford Incorporation. the nave are well-carved figures of the Blessed Virgin University Colleges aml Halls, £s6,475; St. Martin and with the Holy Child, and St. John: the stained east. All Saints, [23,476; St. Peter-in-the-East, £6,502 ; St. w·indow and four· others were designed by Mr. C. E_ Mary the Virgin, [4,669; St. Thomas, £42,s88; St. Kempe: the church is open to the public, and will Ebbe's, £I6,937; ::it. Mary Magdalen, £IB,us; St. seat about Cloo persons. St. John the Evangelist's Mission Michael, £r4, I79; s~. Peter le Bailey, £8,673; Holywell, House, Marston ntreet, th!l mother house for the Soriet}' £g,o62; St. A.1uate's, [27,698. Within Headington of St. John the Evangelist, was founded over thirt]l' Union :--St. Clement. Oxford, £I7,358; St. Giles, Ox years ago by the Rev. R. M. Benson M.A. and is undeJt ford, £n7,364; St. John the Baptist, £4,776. the direction of the superior, the Rev. Father G. S. Maxwell M.A. ; the London house of the society is at;. The are~ of the parliamentary borough, which extends into Berks, is 4,674 acres; the population in I90I was 22 Great College street, Westminster S W: abroad 49,28S, 3,go6 being in Berks. The population in I9II, there are branch houses of the society at lloston~ including the Berks portion, was s2,98o. The number U.S._\,, in India at Bombay and Poona, and in .Africa at Capetown and St. Cuthbert's, Tsolo. St. Alban'a of electors on the parliamentary register in 19 II was g.82]. Mission church in Charles street, Iffiev road, was. opened on Ascension Day, I 88g, and will seat I So. Th!r SIDIMERTOWN, a northern suburb of Oxford extending National Hospital of St. John the Evangelist for Incur along the road to Banbury, and included under the City abies was erecte-d in 1873, the foundation stone being of Oxford Order, I889. within the extended boundary of laid in May of that year by H.R.H. the late Prince Leopold, Duke of A.lbany K.G. then an undergradnat& the city, is an ecclesiastical parish formed IS Jnly, r83~. out of the parish of St. Giles. The church of St. John of Christ Church, and occupies a site of 4 acres adjoin· the Baptist, formerly the parish church, a cruciform ing the church: in I889-90, a new wing, the gift of 111 structure of stone, in the Early English style, situated lady, was buiH at a cost of £B,ooo, from designs by about 1~ miles from St. Giles' church, was erected Mr. J. L. Pearson R.A., F.S.A.; the hospital, whicn :in 1833, at a cost of £I,6oo, from designs by Mr. H. J. had been for some time closed, was reopened in xBBx. Underwood, architect, and consists of chancel, nave, and will hold 40 patients: in r9o6 a new ward wu transepts, north aisle and an octagonal turret on the opened, and the chapel, designed by Mr. J. N. Comper, western gable containing one bell: it was enlarged in wa~ completed in the same year. 'l'he popnlation or this locality has greatly increased, consisting in r88r • 1875' at a cost of about £2,ooo: a new organ was built for the church in 1886, and a new pulpit, and chancel of 4,324, in 1891, 8,633, and in 1901, u,o6I in th& screen were erected in 1897, both of which have been ?ivil and Io,985 in the ecclesiastical parish; the area tr1msferred to St. Michael and All .Angels, Summertown, 1s 595 acres of land and 8 of water and the rateabl& the new parish church: there are about 450 sittings, value .£s o,2o4. all of which are free. The register dates from the vear • 1835. Owing to the large increase in the population GRANDPONT, to the south of Oxford and along tb of Summertown, the church had become quite in A.bingdon road, is a tithing of the parish of St. Aldate, adequate for the parish, and it not being capable of from which it is separated by the lsis, but is connected enlargement a new church, now the parish church, St. ~·i~h the city by Folly bridge, and bounded on the west Michael and .All .Angels, Summertown, was built in 1909 by the parish of South Hinksey : it was formerly in tb at a cost of about £g,ooo: the church at present con ~ounty of Berks, but by Art. IV. of the City of Oxford sists of sanctuary, chancel and part of the nave: there Order, r88g, framed under the Local Government !et~ are 6oo sittings. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly r888, it was transferred to Oxfordshire and is inclndelf value £2I8, with residence, in the gift of St. John's within the extended city of Oxford. Grandpont House, • College, Oxford, and held since 1908 by the Rev. Charles large mansion built partly on arched stone piers over • James Burrough M . .A. of that college. The Baptist branch of the Isis, and surrounded on either side by chapel, in Woodstock road, erected in rgog, will seat pleasant and well-kept grounds, extending to the river~ 300 persons. The Congregational chapel, erected in was for some time the residence of H.R.H. the laut Igro-11 at a cost of [3,ooo, has 350 sittings. Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany K.G. while an under graduate at Oxford. The church of St. Matthew. COWLEY ST. JOHN,an important suburban district ly Grandpont, erected by subscription in r8go-I, at a rosi ing to the east of the city, was formed into an ecclesiastical of £7,g65, on a site given by Brasenose College, is • parish 4 Aug. 1868, out of the civil parishes of Cowlev rectangular builcling of stone, in the Perpendicular and St. Clement's, Oxford, and is now, by the City of style, from designs by Messrs. Christopher and Whi~. Oxford Order, r889, within the extended boundary nf architects, of London, comprising chancel. and nR¥e of the city, and ecclesiastically in the rural deanery of Cud six bays, under a single roof, aisles, vestrv and a sonth desdon. porch of two storeys, the upper floor forming a gabled' By Local Government Board Order No. 31,868, Cowley hell-chamber, reached by an elegant octagonal turret OD and Iffiey were, in IBg4, formed into a civil parish, the west side, with open tracery in its upper ~taQ"e and known as Cowley St. John. crocketed capping and finiaJ : the chnrr h is li!.!'htPrl olt either side by large trareried windows divided by bat The church of SS. Mary and John, on the Cowley road, tresses, and at each end by fine windows of similar Bnd erected in 1882-3 at a cost of £7,ooo, is a building character: over the entrance arch of the pm·rh runs t of stone, in the Gothic style, from designs by Mr. Alfred fillet, bearing the words, " Peace be within thy walls,"' Mardon Mowbray F.R.I.B.A. architect, of Oxford, and and the space between this and the belfry window it consists of chancel, clerestoried nave of five bavs, han- • • filled with panelled trarery. The lami is chiefly th1t Bepts, aules, vestry, organ chamber and e tower, edded property of Brasenose College- and Christ Chnrch, ~ in l892 at a cost of £2,400: the organ, costing £7oo, was ford; the area is 315 acre!!. given by G. H. Morrell esq. :in 1886: the chancel is a memorial to the late Archbishop Longley: the church -was consecrated on Tuesday, 5 Nov. r883, and has 700 NEW HINKSEY is a modern and populous southern sittings. Attached :is a large and beautiful churchyard. suburb of Oxford adjoining Grandpont ILI!d lying between The register dates from the year I87o. The living is a the Abingdon road on the east and the GrPat Westel'll vicarage, yearly value from the Ecclesiastical Comrms. railway on the west, in the parish of South Hink!!('V, ancJ sioners [320, with residence, in the gift of the Rev. rural deanery of Oxford, but in the arch deaconry of Ht~rb; R. L. Page M.A. and others, and held since rgro by the in I 889 it wa;1 included in the conntv boron!!'h of Orlonf. Rev. Alfred Cecil Scott M.A. of St. John's College, and by Art. IV. of the Oity of Oxford Order, r8BQ, it Cambridge. The church of St. John the Evangelist, was transferred from Berks to the county of Oxford Jffiey road, the conventual church of the Cowley The church of St. John thP Evangelist, erected in tQOO~ Fathers, erected during the period 1894-6 in place of place of a form~r small Pdifice built in 1870, i!l a. building the temporary iron church in Stockmore street, is a of brick, with stone dressings, in the Perpendicular ~ylP", building of stone in the Gothic style of the early 14th from designs by Messrs. Bucknall and Camper, archi~ century, from designs by Mr. G. F. Bodley R..A.. archi of Lonuon: at presPnt only the western half of the tect, of London; it consists of chancel, with lateral church has been built, at a cost of over £6,ooo, and chapels, dedicated respectively to the Holy Name and affords 400 sitting-s. The district is attached to the ·the Holy Spirit, nave with clerestory, vestries and a vicarage of South Hinksey, net yearly value [200, with w-estern tower, added in 1902: there is a beautifully residence, is in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford. and carved rood screen surmounted by life-size wooden held since 1909 by lhe Rev. William Wellesley GordOB figures, carved at Ober-Ammergau: the roof of the Lloyd M. .A.. of St. John's College, Oxford. chancel is painted with designs of toses, pomegranates, Verg1r and Sexton, George H. Dickins, 20 I.ake