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20-643: Lonsdale Road is a residential road in Summertown , north Oxford , England . The road runs between Banbury Road to the west and the River Cherwell to the east. To the south is Summer Fields School , a private preparatory school . St Michael and All Angels parish church is on the north side of Lonsdale Road, near the Banbury Road end. Lonsdale Road is named after the Earl of Lonsdale . The road

40-431: A block of flats now stands on the site. St. Michael's is also a cruciform Early English Gothic Revival building, in this case designed by A.M. Mowbray . The building has never been completed. It has a chancel , north and south transepts , vestry , and a south chapel beside the chancel, but the nave and north and south aisles comprise only one bay ending in a "temporary" west wall that has stood for more than

60-611: A building in its urban situation. Front-gabled buildings are considered typical for German city streets in the Gothic period, while later Renaissance buildings, influenced by Italian architecture, are often side-gabled. In America, front-gabled houses, such as the gablefront house , were popular between the early 19th century and 1920. A Wimperg , in German and Dutch , is a Gothic ornamental gable with tracery over windows or portals , which were often accompanied by pinnacles . It

80-506: A century. The building is coursed rubblestone apart from the temporary west wall, which is brick. A nonconformist chapel in Middle Way was completed in 1824 but had closed by 1830. It has been a Spiritualist church since 1967. Summertown United Reformed Church began in 1838 as a Congregational mission to Summertown. A chapel for it in Middle Way was completed in 1844. The present Gothic Revival church on Banbury Road

100-547: A series of curves ( Dutch gable ) or horizontal steps ( crow-stepped gable ) may hide the diagonal lines of the roof. Gable ends of more recent buildings are often treated in the same way as the Classic pediment form. But unlike Classical structures, which operate through trabeation , the gable ends of many buildings are actually bearing-wall structures. Gable style is also used in the design of fabric structures , with varying degree sloped roofs, dependent on how much snowfall

120-465: Is a private one created and installed by his daughter Susan. 51°46′48″N 1°15′44″W  /  51.77992°N 1.26222°W  / 51.77992; -1.26222 Summertown, Oxford Summertown in North Oxford is a suburb of Oxford , England . Summertown is a one-mile square residential area, north of St Giles , the boulevard leading out of Oxford's city centre. Summertown

140-510: Is expected. Sharp gable roofs are a characteristic of the Gothic and classical Greek styles of architecture. The opposite or inverted form of a gable roof is a V-roof or butterfly roof . While a front-gabled or gable-fronted building faces the street with its gable, a side-gabled building faces it with its cullis (gutter), meaning the ridge is parallel to the street. The terms are used in architecture and city planning to determine

160-511: Is home to several independent schools and the city's most expensive houses. On both sides of Banbury Road are Summertown's popular shops . There is also a smaller street of shops and restaurants, South Parade , that links Banbury Road and Woodstock Road . Summertown is home to much of Oxford's broadcast media. BBC Radio Oxford and the BBC Television 's Oxford studios are on Banbury Road. Start-ups also have an increasing presence on

180-462: Is very little changed from the time of its foundation. Nikolaus Pevsner described the church thus (1974): "By Ernest Newton. Small and stuccoed . A rectangle, white, with a cupola . W. window with a gently double-curved head. Plaster tunnel-vault inside with tie beams." In 1898 the City of Oxford Tramways Company extended its Banbury Road horse tram route to a new terminus at Summertown. In 1913

200-636: The Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches. The Roman Catholic Parish church of Saints Gregory and Augustine on Woodstock Road , was founded in 1911, the same year as Saint Edmund and Frideswide ( Iffley Road, now run by the Capuchin Franciscans ). Previously the Oxford area had been served by the Jesuits at St Aloysius (now an Oratory of St Philip Neri ), which

220-641: The John Radcliffe Hospital (route 700 run by Stagecoach). As of 2011, Oxford Bus Company and Stagecoach came to an agreement in which they would share the same bus timetable. This eliminated the 7, 7A and 7B buses. This also benefited the public because not only were the buses more coordinated in their schedule but the public could use the same ticket/bus pass on each of the bus companies' buses . The following schools and colleges are in Summertown: Gable A parapet made of

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240-536: The chancel and added the vestry in 1857. In 1875 St. John's was enlarged again with the addition of north and south aisles , an organ chamber and a second vestry, presumably for a choir . The congregation outgrew St. John the Baptist so a new church, Saint Michael and All Angels in Lonsdale Road, was built to replace it in 1908–09. St. John's was demolished in 1924, the site was sold in 1970 and

260-547: The company replaced its horse trams with motor buses. Buses running between central Oxford and Summertown via Banbury Road include the Oxford Bus Company 2, 2A, 2B, 2C and 2D, Heyfordian Travel 25 and 25A and Stagecoach 7, 7A, 7B, 17 and S5. Banbury Road also has limited-stop Park and Ride bus services linking Water Eaton with central Oxford (route 500 run by the Oxford Bus Company) and with

280-426: The land belonged to St John's College, Oxford and the houses were originally sold leasehold . St John's has since sold the freehold on most of these properties. Summertown's Church of England parish church is Saint Michael and All Angels in Lonsdale Road. The parish originated as part of Saint Giles, Oxford , when the chapel of Saint John the Baptist was completed in Middle Way, Summertown in 1832. It

300-450: The parade, such as Brainomix and Passle. The studios for JACK FM , Glide FM , and Six TV Oxford (no longer broadcasting) are on Woodstock Road. Most of North Oxford came into being as a result of the revolutionary decision by the university in 1877 to permit college fellows to marry and live in real houses, as opposed to rooms in college. Large houses were built on farmland either side of Banbury Road and Woodstock Road . Much of

320-419: Was a chapel of ease until 1834, when it was made a separate ecclesiastical parish . The Gothic Revival architect H.J. Underwood designed St. John's in an Early English Gothic style. It was cruciform with a nave , north and south transepts and a short chancel . It had no tower but there was a bell-turret on the western gable of the nave. The Oxford Diocesan architect, G.E. Street extended

340-412: Was a typical element in Gothic architecture, especially in cathedral architecture . Wimpergs often had crockets or other decorative elements in the Gothic style. The intention behind the wimperg was the perception of increased height. The gable end roof is a poor design for hurricane or tornado -prone regions. Winds blowing against the gable end can exert tremendous pressure, both on the gable and on

360-553: Was built in 1894 and its transepts and meeting room were added in 1910. The former chapel in Middle Way was demolished in 1971. Both Saint Michael 's and the URC church belong to the Summertown- Wolvercote Church Partnership which is a local ecumenical partnership . Woodstock Road Baptist Church , on the corner of Beechcroft Road, was opened in 1897 and rebuilt in 1955. It is a member of

380-509: Was founded in 1875, replacing the church of St Ignatius (in St Clement's ), which had been founded immediately after the relaxation of the penal laws forbidding the building of Catholic places of worship, in 1795. More Catholic parishes were established in the ensuing decades. The architect was Ernest Newton , and a much admired member of the Arts and Crafts movement. The fabric of the church

400-439: Was named in 1905 although the first houses in the road were erected from 1902. There have been a number of notable residents of Lonsdale Road, especially scientists, including two Nobel Prize winners. The following have been residents in the road: Three of the houses in the road bear blue plaques. The Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board erected the plaques to Nikolaas Tinbergen and Ludwig Guttmann . The third, to John Herivel ,

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