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This Church hall, formerly known as the SS Mary & John Church Hall, reopened in 2015 following a two-year refurbishment <ref name="OxMail2015">Oxford Mail, 22 August 2015: http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/13619331.Comedy_legend___s_debut_venue_looking_good_to_reopen_soon/</ref>. It was renamed Richard Benson Hall, after Father Richard Meux Benson, founder of the parish and of the Cowley Fathers who was also responsible for a number of socially-minded projects in OX4 <ref name="bensonHall">https://bensonhall.org/about/</ref> <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Meux_Benson</ref>. | This Church hall, formerly known as the SS Mary & John Church Hall, reopened in 2015 following a two-year refurbishment <ref name="OxMail2015">Oxford Mail, 22 August 2015: http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/13619331.Comedy_legend___s_debut_venue_looking_good_to_reopen_soon/</ref>. It was renamed Richard Benson Hall, after Father Richard Meux Benson, founder of the parish and of the Cowley Fathers who was also responsible for a number of socially-minded projects in OX4 <ref name="bensonHall">https://bensonhall.org/about/</ref> <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Meux_Benson</ref>. | ||
The hall features a striking neo-Gothic window and low, sweeping roofs in the Arts and Crafts style (see also [[95]] Cowley Road for a brilliant, slightly later example in a similar vein). | |||
==Before then== | ==Before then== | ||
Comedy legend Ronnie Barker, who died in 2005, made his debut here <ref name="OxMail2015"/>. | Comedy legend Ronnie Barker, who died in 2005, made his debut performance here <ref name="OxMail2015"/>. | ||
==Before then?== | ==Before then?== | ||
