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| This is the Cowley Road Methodist Church.
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| <font face="courier new">[[File:wesley_hall.jpg|frame| Cowley Road Wesleyan Church in c.1900]]</font>
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| <span class="big_text">Wesley Hall</span> on the corner of Jeune Street is an Arts and Crafts stone Gothic building. The ''Oxford Chronicle'' for 23 October 1903 (p. 7, col. f) reports:
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| The Wesleyan church and schools are in course of erection in Cowley Road from designs of Mr. Stephen Salter, F.R.I.B.A., the builders being Messrs. Kingerlee and Sons, of Oxford. The church is built to seat 700, and the schools 500. The total cost will be nearly £9,000. The church is in Handborough stone with Bath stone tracings. The architect has striven to avoid the usual “stock pattern” buildings so much in vogue for this class of work.
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| The church was opened in 1904 and the above postcard dates from soon after that time.
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| It was renamed Cowley Road Methodist Church in 1934.
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| The church was divided at gallery level and completely renovated in 1984.
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| == Before then? == | | == Before then? == |