19-529: South Parade is a shopping street in Summertown , north Oxford , England . It runs between Woodstock Road to the west and Banbury Road to the east, where there are also shops stretching south from South Parade. This area of the Banbury Road and South Parade form the main shopping centre of Summertown and indeed of North Oxford . As well as shops, there are a number of restaurants located here. To
38-431: 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
57-506: 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
76-499: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This England road or road transport-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 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 is home to several independent schools and
95-450: Is unlikely that the two sides would have come so close to each other without engaging in combat and, in any case, parade grounds are known to have existed elsewhere in and around the town ". The Encyclopaedia of Oxford claims that " [i]n 1930, when Summertown became part of the city, Double Ditch was renamed South Parade, supposedly on the suggestion of a German professor said to be an authority on Oxford history " but other sources date
114-462: 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
133-636: 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
152-712: 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: Banbury Road Too Many Requests If you report this error to
171-536: 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
190-468: 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
209-547: 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
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#1732791712530228-426: 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
247-450: 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
266-472: The renaming to 1890–91. It is certainly the case that " until the 1870s, it was the most southerly limit of the Whorestone [Farm] Estate. " To summarise: North Parade was one of the earliest developments on St. John's leasehold land, soon after 1855, and was so called from the start ... South Parade was known by that name at least as early as 1859. We do not know which got its name first, but when either
285-672: The west, South Parade leads into St Edward's School and the North Wall Arts Centre . South Parade is north of North Parade in central North Oxford . It is often claimed that during the Civil War when Charles I was besieged by Oliver Cromwell at Oxford, South Parade was the Roundhead southern front, while North Parade was the location of the Royalist northern front during the siege of Oxford . However, " [i]t
304-419: 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
323-553: 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
342-509: 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
361-570: Was named there would have seemed no need to consider the existence of the other. One was in Oxford, the other in a village out in the County. In terms of Oxford, North Parade was north; in terms of Summertown, South Parade was south. When Summertown was made part of Oxford, the names illogically remained. 51°46′41″N 1°16′04″W / 51.77806°N 1.26778°W / 51.77806; -1.26778 This Oxfordshire location article
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