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This site incorporates the church hall and old vicarage.

==2015-present==

~~This~~ The 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 facing the street. It also has low, sweeping roofs and a prominent chimney, in the Arts and Crafts style (see also [[95]] Cowley Road for a brilliant, slightly later example in a similar vein).

==1901==

Behind the hall, not fully visible from the road is the whitewashed vicarage. It was designed by Ninian Comper and built in 1901, displaying striking Arts & Crafts influences with its white rendered walls and stone detailing.<ref>https://www.oxford.gov.uk/downloads/file/1550/the_old_vicarage_276_cowley_road</ref> It is best viewed from the graveyard behind, when on sunny days its bold shapes make a dazzling show against the blue sky.

==Before then==

Comedy legend Ronnie Barker, who died in 2005, made his debut performance here in the church hall<ref name="OxMail2015"/>.

==Before then?==

Eleanor Greenhalgh

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