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WESLEYAN REFORMERS (UNITED METHODIST FREE CHURCH).
Society of Friends, p. 415. Presbyterians and Independents, p. 416. Baptists, p. 417. Wesleyan Methodists, p. 419. Primitive Methodists, p. 421. Wesleyan Reformers, p. 421. Congregationalists, p. 421. Brethren, p. 422. Salvation Army, p. 423. Scottish and English Presbyterians, p. 423. Unitarians, p. 423. Others, p. 423.
The new community did not at first flourish. (fn. 78) One of its first pastors left after adopting 'heterodox views' and until the appointment of James Hinton in 1787 the pulpit was so ill supplied that all who could do so continued to go to Abingdon. The principle of open communion caused occasional trouble in the congregation until the later 19th century: Hinton, for example, had to deal with dissension between Baptists and Paedobaptists in his flock in the 1790s, and in the period 1795-7 there was an abortive attempt to establish a separate Strict Baptist chapel. As Hinton himself believed in adult baptism there was a slight rise in the number of Baptist members, but under his guidance the congregation remained 'soundly Calvinistic' and middle of the road.
Hinton's most successful years were 1795-1805. From 1811, when his health began to fail, a succession of assistants was appointed, of whom one, Jenkyn Thomas, was particularly popular. Hinton's success depended not only on his preaching ability but on his character, which won the respect even of such pugnacious opponents of nonconformity as Dr. Tatham, rector of Lincoln College. His moderation and tact enabled the united chapel at New Road to gain a respected position in the city.
After his death in 1823 his successors were unable to hold together the heterogeneous elements in the open communion, and by 1836 membership had fallen to 150. (fn. 81) In the 1830s some 28 members were lost to a new Congregational church in George Street and fewer than a dozen to the Adullam chapel. In 1853, after prolonged disagreements between the deacons and the minister, who was accused publicly of mismanaging his finances and leaning towards Anglicanism, there was a further secession to the Congregationalists of 23 members, including all the deacons. (fn. 82) Most returned after the minister's resignation the same year. Congregations, which averaged 400 both morning and evening in 1851, (fn. 83) do not seem to have been badly affected by the earlier disagreements, but membership fell between 1853 and 1855 from 288 to 196. (fn. 84) Public dissension in the congregation continued until, in James Dann, pastor 1882-1916, New Road chapel found a worthy successor to Hinton. Membership rose to a peak of 368. In the earlier 20th century membership of New Road chapel fell, partly as a result of movement of population, partly because of the building of new chapels in the suburbs. (fn. 85) The chapel was in use in 1972.
The New Road Baptist chapel, (fn. 86) a large rectangular stone building, contains survivals of the Presbyterian chapel of 1721, which was almost entirely rebuilt in 1798. It was further enlarged and a baptistry added by John Hudson in 1819; baptisms had earlier taken place at Abingdon. (fn. 87) The chapel was endowed with several charities. By deed of trust dated 1786 Abraham Atkins of Clapham (Surr.) gave estates for the support of Baptist ministers, chapels, and poor members of congregations in 14 towns and villages, including Oxford, and by will dated 1791 he increased the endowment and the number of beneficiaries. In the early 19th century the Oxford minister was receiving £24, and £11 was spent on the poor or church repairs; by 1924 the income had fallen to c. £11 for the minister and c. £3 for the poor. (fn. 88) In accordance with the will of Charles Hughes, dated 1799, a deed of 1804 gave to trustees sufficient stock to yield £10 for the support of an assistant minister at New Road, and similar sums for the upkeep of the chapel, for the dissenting Sunday schools in Oxford, and for each of 12 neighbouring pastors, on condition that they preached once a year at New Road if required. (fn. 89) Henry Goring, by will proved 1859, gave £1,000 for the support of the pastor of New Road chapel, and in 1879 the income was £31. (fn. 90) All three charities survived in 1972.
In 1868 it was bought back by the remnants of the 'Bulteelers', who, under Alexander Macfarlane of Spurgeon's College, Camberwell, had started meetings in 1866 in the Chequers Sale Room in High Street, moving the following year to the former Quaker meeting-house in Pusey Lane. In 1869 the renovated chapel was opened by Charles Spurgeon. (fn. 99) The group was at first known as the Tabernacle Baptist Society, (fn. 100) but the chapel was later described as Particular Baptist, and remained so until its closure in 1937. (fn. 101) The remaining members joined with a Baptist congregation from South Hinksey to open a chapel in Wytham Street, New Hinksey, in 1938, (fn. 102) which remained in use, with a resident minister, in 1972.
In 1843 William Higgins registered a meeting of Particular Baptists in his house in Clarendon Place, Jericho, (fn. 103) and in 1851 the congregation averaged 60. (fn. 104) The address of 'Higgins's room' was given as King Street, Jericho in 1869, and there was another meeting of 'Strict Communion Baptists' in Iffley Road. (fn. 105) The King Street Baptists were derisively called 'Hypers' in the 1870s, and may have been connected with the earlier group of Bulteelers known by that name. (fn. 106) In 1881 they built a chapel in Albert Street, Jericho, described as Strict Baptist, (fn. 107) which remained open in 1972.
The assistant minister of New Road chapel, J. H. Moore, was holding open-air meetings in Summertown in 1896. A Baptist chapel was opened in 1897 on the corner of Woodstock Road and Beechcroft Road; (fn. 114) in 1898 New Road chapel 'dismissed' Moore and nine others to form the North Oxford church. (fn. 115) In 1903, at the request of the Baptist Union, New Road took charge of the chapel until 1909 when a further 21 members were transferred to North Oxford. (fn. 116) The chapel was rebuilt in 1955. (fn. 117) Baptists began to meet in a hall in Crowell Road, Cowley, in 1939, and in 1941, with the help and support of New Road chapel, the John Bunyan church was built. In 1964 it was replaced by an octagonal building of brick and glass, designed by Peter Reynolds. (fn. 118) The Headington Baptist chapel, in Old High Street, opened in 1836, (fn. 119) remained in use in 1972.
The new society grew rapidly; in 1837 there were 70 members, in 1841 143 as well as a large Sunday school. (fn. 188) In 1843 some members were transferred to a new church in Summertown, and a few more left to join the Brethren, but congregations of over 250 were recorded in 1851. (fn. 189) During the long and successful pastorate of David Martin (1858-79) the church was regularly filled, but thereafter congregations decreased, and the church's decline was hastened by vacancies in the pastorate, rapid turnover of ministers, difficulties in raising money for the minister's stipend, and the gradual depopulation of the city centre which began in the 1880s. (fn. 190) Members lived at rather greater distances from each other than those in Summertown and formed a less close community. The opening of Mansfield College in 1889 (fn. 191) provided university Congregationalists with a chapel of their own, but a few academics, notably Sir James Murray (d. 1915), the lexicographer, and W. E. Soothill, professor of Chinese 1920-36, attended the George Street chapel. Murray and W. R. Selbie, principal of Mansfield College, took the lead at church meetings in the absence of a pastor.
Despite the continued decline in numbers, which meant that by 1925 there were over 440 vacant sittings, (fn. 192) the church's financial position, which had been difficult for much of its history, improved in the early 20th century as new ways of raising money were found. A site for a new church in St. Giles's Street was bought in 1900, but the idea was abandoned in 1910. In 1930, when congregations averaged only c. 50, it became clear that part of the chapel site would be needed for road widening; because of the increasing difficulty of attracting a congregation to the city centre it was decided not to rebuild on another site; suggested unions with the Baptists or Wesleyans proved unworkable and the congregation disbanded in 1933 when the church, which had been sold to the city council, was closed.
1. The account of 17th- and 18th-century nonconformity is based on an earlier draft kindly supplied by Mr. W. Stevens. This section was completed in 1973.
2. W. C. Braithwaite, Beginnings of Quakerism (2nd edn.), 158-9, 165, 297; First Publishers of Truth, ed. N. Penney (Friends Hist. Soc. Supplement i), 209-14; S. Allott, Friends in Oxf. (priv. print. 1952), 1-3; Oxf. Review, 12 June 1902.
3. Jnl. of George Fox, ed. J. L. Nickalls, 279.
4. O.R.O., Quarterly Meeting Mins.
5. O.R.O., Oxf. Q.M. Sufferings; City Arch. O.5.11, f. 19.
6. First Publishers, ed. Penney, 210-12, 214.
7. Braithwaite, Beginnings, 148-9, 157-8; J. Besse, Sufferings of the Quakers, i. 563; O.R.O., Oxon. Q.M. Sufferings.
8. Relation of Sufferings inflicted on the Quakers, (Oxf. 1654): copy in Bodl. Wood 515(14).
9. O.R.O., Oxon. Q.M. Sufferings; Besse, Sufferings, i. 573.
10. Besse, Sufferings, i. 571; First Publishers, ed. Penney, 206.
12. Allott, Friends in Oxf. 13; Wood's Life, iii. 279; O.R.O., Q.M. Mins s.a. 1689, 1693; City Arch. O.2.1, f. 29.
13. Jnl. of Life of Thomas Story [ed. James and John Wilson] (Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1747), 474-5.
15. O.R.O., Witney Monthly Meeting Mins. s.a. 1721, 1728; Allott, Friends in Oxf. 15-16.
16. Life of Thomas Story, 715.
17. O.R.O., Q.M. Mins.; ibid. Witney M.M. Mins.; Allott, Friends in Oxf. 17.
20. Allott, Friends in Oxf. 19-20; advertisement of 1888 in Bodl. G.A. Oxon. 4° 270.
21. Allott, Friends in Oxf. 21.
22. Ibid. 22; ex inf. Mrs. I. Currie of the Religious Soc. of Friends.
23. Except for the war years when no. 19 Holywell Street was rented.
24. Allott, Friends in Oxf. 22-3; ex inf. Mrs. Currie.
25. See above, Early Modern Oxf. City Govt (Charters).
26. Cal. S.P. Dom. 1670, 17-18; City Arch. O.5.11, f. 155.
27. Wood's Life, i. 499; Calamy Revised, ed. A. G. Matthews, 130, 137, 222, 414-15.
28. Calamy Revised, 137, 314, 414-15, 494.
29. Cal. S.P. Dom. 1670, 17-18.
30. Wood's Life, ii. 244; Wood, Athenae, iv. 9-10, 407. For another house of the same name, on the site of the Clarendon Building, see Wood's Life, ii. 172; Wood's City, i. 259 n.; City Properties, 294, 296.
31. Wood's Life, iii. 223-4. For Thompson see D.N.B.
32. Rec. of Nonconf. ed. G. L. Turner, i. 277, 371, 450, 546, 579, 611.
33. Cal. S.P. Dom. 1671-2, 301-2.
34. Dr. Williams's Libr. Baxter MS. Letters, ii. 51; Bodl. MS. Add. c. 302, f. 250.
35. Wood's Life, iii. 299.
36. Ibid. 379; E 178/6906 m. 7.
37. E. Calamy, Hist. My Own Life, ed. J. T. Rutt, 223, 267-8; Freedom After Ejection, ed. A. Gordon, 179-80.
38. Dr. Williams Libr., Evans MSS.
39. R. Rawlinson, Full and Impartial Account of the Oxf. Riots (1715); B. Gardiner, Plain Relation of Some Late Passages at Oxf. (1717).
40. City Arch. O.2.3, f. 38v.
41. E 178/6906 m. 6.
43. New Road Chapel MSS.
44. City Arch. O.2.4, f. 107.
45. D. Turner, Charity the Bond of Perfection (priv. print. 1780): copy in Dr. Williams's Libr.
46. Dr. Williams's Libr. Palmer MSS., paper entitled 'State of Dissenting Interest'; J. Peshall, Ancient and Present State of Oxf. 172.
47. R. D. Whitehorn, 'Presbyterians and Baptists in 18thcentury Oxf.' Jnl. Presbyterian Hist. Soc. vi. 229-32.
48. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. d 247, p. 216; City Arch. O.2.1, f. 21.
50. Bodl. MSS. Oxf. Dioc. c 3, f. 14; c 9, f. 13; O.C.A. 1626-65, 115, 134; Wood's Life, i. 302.
51. O.C.A. 1626-65, 199, 294.
52. R. W[eaver], Songs and Poems of Love and Drollery (1654), 21-3: copy in Bodl. Malone 402.
53. For the flight of Oxford men to Abingdon see Wood's Life, i. 63.
54. Assoc. Rec. Particular Baptists to 1660, ed. B. R. White (Baptist Hist. Soc.), iii. 131, 145, 208.
55. State Papers of J. Thurloe, ed. T. Birch, vi. 187; C. F. C. Beeson, Clockmaking in Oxon. (Banbury Hist. Soc. iv), 135; E. A. Payne, Baptists of Berks. 47.
56. Wood's Life, i. 293.
57. B.L. Add. MS. 4459, f. 111v.; ref. kindly supplied by Dr. B. S. Capp.
58. Wood's Univ. ii(2), 683.
59. Wood's Life, i. 302.
61. O.C.A. 1626-65, 200, 206-7, 267-8.
62. Cal. S.P. Dom. 1670, 17-18; Surveys and Tokens (O.H.S. lxxv), 228, 418; City Arch. O.2.1, f. 18v.
63. Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. c 300, f. 76.
64. Cal. S.P. Dom. 1660-1, 473.
65. Ibid. 1661, 157; City Arch. O.5.11, f. 46.
66. City Arch. O.5.11, f. 108v.
67. Bodl. MSS. Oxf. Dioc. c 9, f. 57v; d 12, ff. 144, 182.
68. W. Stevens and W. W. Bottoms, Baptists of New Road Oxf. (priv. print. 1948), 6: copy in Bodl. 11133 d 22.
69. Rec. of Nonconf. ed. G. L. Turner, i. 243, 258, 440; Dr. Williams's Libr. Baxter MSS., Letters, ii. 51; J. Stanley, Church in the Hop Garden, 103-4.
70. City Arch. O.5.12, passim.
71. Bodl. MS. Oxf. Archd. Oxon. c 22, f. 163.
72. Wood's Life, iii. 59.
73. See above, Early Modern Oxf. City Govt. (Charters).
74. City Arch. O.5.12, ff. 66v., 78v.; Stevens and Bottoms, Baptists of New Road, 8.
75. E 178/6906; T. Crosby, Hist. Eng. Baptists, iv. 137.
76. Crosby, Eng. Baptists, iv. 139.
77. Stevens and Bottoms, Baptists of New Road, 10.
78. Except where otherwise stated this and the following two paragraphs are based on J. H. Hinton, Biog. Portraiture of Revd. James Hinton.
79. [J. Hinton], Circular Letter from Ministers and Messengers of Baptist Congregational Churches (Oxf. 1821), 6.
80. Bodl. MS. d.d. Oxf. Methodist Circuit, c 21, item a.
81. New Road Chapel, list of members.
82. New Road Chapel, Church Bk. 1838-66; Stevens and Bottoms, Baptists of New Road, 16.
83. H.O. 129/158; there are 2 returns from New Road, one from the minister the other from a deacon, giving slightly different figures.
84. New Road Chapel, Church Bk. 1838-66.
85. Ibid. 1866-1915; Stevens and Bottoms, Baptists of New Road, 20.
87. Hinton, James Hinton, 157-8, 186-7.
88. New Road Chapel, Atkins Trust file.
90. Ibid. Min. Bk. 1861; chapel manual, copy in Bodl. 11135 f 1.
91. V.C.H. Oxon. v. 265-6.
92. Bodl. MSS. Oxf. Dioc. c 645, ff. 21, 133, 185; Bodl. MS. d.d. Oxf. Methodist Circuit, d 10, 18 June 1830; R. Fasnacht, How Summertown Started, 12.
94. Bodl. MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 645, f. 201; H.O. 129/158; Oxf. Univ. and City Guide (1833); The Seceders, ed. J. H. Philpot, i. 170: newspaper cuttings in Bodl. G. A. Oxon. 4° 270; J. J. Moore, Nonconf. in Oxf. 15.
95. The Seceders, i. 173; Rowdon, Origins of the Brethren, 66-9; [W. Palmer], At Him Again or the Fox without a Tail, 6-7.
96. Newspaper cuttings in Bodl. G.A. Oxon. 4° 270.
98. New Road Chapel, Church Bk. 1838-66, s.a. 1858; Moore, Nonconf. in Oxf. 30.
99. Newspaper cutting in Bodl. G.A. Oxon. 4° 270; Moore, Nonconf. in Oxf. 14.
100. Webster's Dir. Oxf. (1869, 1872).
101. Official List of Places of Worship (1909-37).
102. Oxf. Mail, 2 July 1938.
103. Bodl. MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 646, f. 178.
105. Bodl. MS. d.d. Oxf. Methodist Circuit, c 21, item c.
106. Moore, Nonconf. in Oxf. 14-15.
107. Bodl. MS. d.d Oxf. Methodist Circuit c 21, item c; Kelly's Dir. Oxon. (1883 and later edns.).
108. Webster's Dir. Oxf. (1869, 1872); Kelly's Dir. Oxon. (1887).
109. Kelly's Dir. Oxon. (1883); leaflet in Bodl. G.A. Oxon. 4° 270.
110. New Road Chapel, Church Bk. 1866-1915, s.a. 1878, 1889; Kelly's Dir. Oxon. (1883); leaflet in Bodl. Oxon. 4° 270.
111. Kelly's Dir. Oxf. (1921).
112. Stevens and Bottoms, Baptists of New Road, 17; leaflet in Bodl. G.A. Oxon. 4° 270; New Road Chapel Monthly Visitor, Dec. 1893, p. 187: copy in church.
113. New Road Chapel, Church Bk. 1886-1915; Stevens and Bottoms, Baptists of New Road, 20.
114. Mansfield Coll., Summertown Cong. Church Min. Bk.; printed announcement in Bodl. G.A. Oxon. 4° 270.
115. New Road Chapel, Min. Bk. 1897-1903.
116. Ibid. Church Bk. 1866-1915; Stevens and Bottoms, Baptists of New Road, 18.
117. Oxf. Mail, 5, 10, Oct. 1955.
118. Stevens and Bottoms, Baptists of New Road, 20; Oxf. Mail, 9 Nov. 1964.
119. V.C.H. Oxon. v. 168.
120. L. Tyerman, Oxf. Methodists, 158-9; J. E. Oxley, Hist of Wesley Memorial Church, Oxf. (priv. print. 1968), 1.
122. V.H.H. Green, Religion in Oxf. and Camb. 198; Oxley, Wesley Mem. Church, 4.
123. Oxley, Wesley Mem. Church. 3.
124. Wesley's Jnl. ed. N. Curnock, iii. 511; v. 345; vi. 80; Oxley, Wesley Mem. Church, 4. Mears had known Wesley as early as 1738: Wesley's Jnl. ii, 148.
125. Rep. R. Com. on Non-parochial Regs. , p. 49, H.C. (1937-8), xxviii; Bodl. MS. d.d Oxf. Methodist Circuit c 21, item a, p. 10.
126. T. Nowell, Answer to Pietas Oxoniensis (Oxf. 1768), 24-5; for the expulsion see V.C.H. Oxon. iii. 332.
127. Bodl. MS. Oxf. Dioc. d 562, f. 191; d 565, f. 51v.
128. Wesley's Jnl. vi. 432.
129. Oxley, Wesley Mem. Church, 6-7.
130. Wesley's Jnl. vii. 27, 334; Oxley, Wesley Mem. Church, 6.
131. J. H. Hinton, Biog. Portraiture of Revd. James Hinton, 327-8; Oxley, Wesley Mem. Church, 8.
132. Oxf. Methodist, i(9), p. 76.
133. Oxley, Wesley Mem. Church, 9-10, 14, and pl. facing p. 28; R. Lascelles, Univ. and City of Oxf. (Lond. 1821), 237.
134. Bodl. MS. d.d. Oxf. Methodist Circuit c 21, item a, pp. 36-7.
135. Oxley, Wesley Mem. Church, 11-13, 22.
136. Ibid. 21; H.O. 129/158.
137. Oxley, Wesley Mem. Church, 21-2.
140. H.P. Hughes, Revival of Oxf. Methodism (priv. print, 1903) 34-5; D. P. Hughes, Life of H. P. Hughes, 137.
141. Hughes, Revival of Oxf. Methodism, 42; Hughes, Life of H.P. Hughes, 137, 141-4; Oxley, Wesley Mem. Church, 31-3.
142. Oxley, Wesley Mem. Church. 39, 41-4.
143. Ibid. 46; Mansfield Coll., George Street Chapel MSS., circular letter of Mar. 1930.
144. Bodl. MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 644, f. 230.
145. Bodl. MS. d.d. Oxf. Methodist Circuit, d 10, meeting of 27 Sept. 1837.
146. Bodl. MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 646, f. 100.
147. Hunt's Dir. Oxon. (1846).
148. H.O. 129/157; Moore, Nonconf. in Oxf. 27.
149. Bodl. MS. d.d. Oxf. Methodist Circuit c 21, item b, pp. 111, 120.
150. Cowley Road Methodist Church, Souvenir (1954): copy in Bodl. MS. d.d. Oxf. Methodist Circuit c 21.
151. Bodl. MS. d.d. Oxf. Methodist Circuit c 21, item b, p. 91.
152. Ibid. pp. 91, 93; Oxf. Chron. 13 Oct. 1883; Oxf. Jnl. 13 Oct. 1883.
153. Bodl. MS. d.d. Oxf. Methodist Circuit d 23.
154. Oxley, Wesley Mem. Church, 31.
155. Bodl. MS. d.d. Oxf. Methodist Circuit d 10, meetings of 29 June 1842, 25 June 1845, 29 Sept. 1847.
156. Oxley, Wesley Mem. Church, 20.
157. Oxf. and District Free Church Mag. i(6), 44.
158. Bodl. MS. d.d. Oxf. Methodist Circuit c 21, item b, p. 108.
159. V.C.H. Oxon. v. 167-8.
160. M. Edwards, Lime Walk Story (priv. print. 1972), 12, 16.
161. Bodl. MS. d.d. Oxf. Methodist Circuit c 21, item b, p. 149; J. Petty, Hist. Primitive Methodist Connexion (3rd edn. 1800), 231; Oxf. Herald, 29 Aug., 12 Sept. 1829.
162. Bodl. MS. Oxf. Dioc. d 645, f. 168.
163. Moore, Nonconf. in Oxf. 29.
164. Bodl. MS. d.d. Oxf. Methodist Circuit c 21, item b, p. 149; MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 646, f. 99; Petty, Prim. Methodist Connexion, 320, 328-9.
165. Bodl. MS. d.d. Oxf. Methodist Circuit d 41.
166. Ibid. c 21, item b, p. 149; MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 646, f. 211.
167. Petty, Prim. Methodist Connexion, 449.
168. H.O. 129/157, 158; Primitive Methodist Mag. xxxii. 30-9; xxxiii. 115.
169. Bodl. MSS. d.d. Oxf. Methodist Circuit b 11; c 21, item b, p. 51.
170. Ibid. b 11, accts. for June 1865, Mar. 1867, and Mar. 1872; Cowley Road Methodist Souvenir (1954), 5.
171. Bodl. MS. d.d. Oxf. Methodist Circuit c 21, item b, p. 151; Oxf. Jnl. 24 Oct. 1876, 16 Oct. 1875.
172. Bodl. MS. d.d. Oxf. Methodist Circuit c 18, item g; Cowley Road Methodist Souvenir (1954), 9-10.
173. Bodl. MS. d.d. Oxf. Methodist Circuit c 21, item b, cutting.
174. Ibid. d 20, ff. 17-18.
175. Ibid. c 21, item b, p. 20.
176. Oxley, Wesley Mem. Church, 18-20.
177. Bodl. MS. d.d. Oxf. Methodist Circuit c 21, item b, p. 155.
179. Bodl. MS. d.d. Oxf. Methodist Circuit c 21, item b, p. 155.
180. Ibid.; Moore, Nonconf. in Oxf. 30.
181. Bodl. MS. d.d. Oxf. Methodist Circuit c 21, item b, p. 155; Oxf. Chron. 22 Oct. 1870.
182. P.O. Dir. Oxon. (1877).
183. V.C.H. Oxon. v. 94.
184. 'Rose Hill Methodist Church', Clarendonian, N.S. xviii. 272-3.
185. Except where otherwise stated this account of the George Street Congregationalists is based on Mansfield Coll., George St. Church min. bks. 1830-1930.
186. New Road Chapel, reg. 1825-36.
188. Mansfield Coll., rep. of meeting of Cong. Assoc. (1841); Oxf. and District Free Church Mag., i. 44.
190. Mansfield Coll., circular letter of 1930; W. H. Summers, Hist. Congregational Churches, 251-4.
191. V.C.H. Oxon. iii. 34.
192. Mansfield Coll., circular letter 1930.
193. Summers, Hist. Cong. Churches, 256.
194. Bodl. MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 646, f. 110.
195. Mansfield Coll., George St. Church min. bk.
196. Summers, Hist. Cong. Churches, 256.
197. H.O. 129/157; Oxf. Chron. 17 June 1893.
199. Oxf. Chron. 17 June 1893.
200. Mansfield Coll., Summertown Cong. Church min. bk.
202. Ex inf. Miss E. Lindsey and Mrs. W. G. Moore.
203. Mansfield Coll., Summertown Cong. Church, roll of members.
205. Ibid. rep. of meeting of Cong. Assoc. (1910); Summertown Congregational Church (priv. print. 1905): copy in Bodl. G. A. Oxon. 16° 33(25); ex inf. Mrs. Moore.
206. V.C.H. Oxon. v. 94.
207. Official List of Places Registered for the Solemnization of Marriage (1955).
208. Oxf. Mail, 2 Apr. 1962, 26 June 1963.
209. V.C.H. Oxon. v. 94-5.
210. Summers, Hist. Cong. Churches, 256; Oxf. Mail, 11 Sept. 1959; Kelly's Dir. Oxf. (1940); ex inf. Mrs. Moore.
211. Oxf. Mail, 16 Apr. 1969; ex inf. Mrs. Moore.
212. N. Noel, Hist. Brethren, ed. W. F. Knapp, 20, 22, 24, 39.
213. Moore, Nonconf. in Oxf. 15; Webster's Dir. Oxf. (1869, 1872). A room registered in 1831 was perhaps for the Brethren: Bodl. MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 645, f. 172.
214. J. J. Moore, Pictorial and Historical Gossiping Guide to Oxf. 15; newspaper cutting in Bodl. G.A. Oxon. 4° 270; Kelly's Dir. Oxf. (1964).
215. Kelly's Dir. Oxon. (1906 and later edns.).
217. Official List of Places of Worship (1935, 1969-70).
218. Kelly's Dir. Oxf. (1945 and later edns.).
219. Oxf. Mail, 24 Apr. 1961.
220. Kelly's Dir. Oxf. (1938 and later edns.).
221. Oxf. Chron. 29 Apr. 1882.
222. Oxf. Weekly Record, 1 Dec. 1882; 'The Salvation Army', Clarendonian, xix. 78-80.
223. Oxf. Chron. 18 Feb. 1882, 25 Feb. 1882; Rep. of Bldgs. Registered for Worship, H.C. 401, p. 266 (1882), l; Clarendonian, xix. 80.
224. Oxf. Times, 29 Sept., 13 Oct. 1888.
225. Official List of Places of Worship (1971-3).
227. Kelly's Dir. Oxon. (1895-1937).
228. Moore, Nonconf. in Oxf. 31; Shrimpton's Oxf. Guide (1871), 61.
229. D. C. Lusk, St. Columba's Oxf. (priv. print, 1921), 12; Rep. of Bldgs. Registered for Worship, p. 266.
230. Lusk, St. Columba's, 14-15.
231. Ibid. 15; Pevsner, Oxon. 299.
232. Kelly's Dir. Oxon. (1915-16).
233. Ex inf. the Revd. J. G. Thornton.
234. Ex inf. the Revd. H. L. Short, principal of Manchester Coll.
235. Official List of Places of Worship (1909).
236. Oxf. Chron. 10 Feb. 1900; Kelly's Dir. Oxon. (1911 and later edns.).
238. 31st Rep. Oxf. Mission: copy in Bodl. Per. G.A. Oxon. 8° 545.
239. 33rd Rep. Oxf. Mission; G.R.O. Worship Reg. no. 31345.
240. Oxf. Mail, 14 Apr. 1965; G.R.O. Worship Reg. no. 39237.
241. Bodl. G.A. Oxon. 4° 529.
242. Oxf. Mail, 14 Apr. 1965, 23 June 1971.
243. Moore, Nonconf. in Oxf. 14.
244. Rep. of Bldgs. Registered for Worship, p. 266.
245. Bodl. MS. Oxf. Dioc. c 647, f. 121; H.O. 129/157.
246. P. F. Anson, Bishops at Large, 130-55; E. F. Tull, Vernon Herford, Apostle of Unity, passim.
247. Ex inf. the Revd. S. Norton, minister of St. John's.
248. Poster in Bodl. G.A. Oxon. 4° 270.
249. Cowley Road Methodist Souvenir (1954), 5; ex inf. Mr. G. D. Gillett, secretary to the Oxford Christadelphian Ecclesia.
250. Kelly's Dir. Oxf. (1971).
251. Bodl. G.A. Oxon. b 156 (82-7): misc. pps.; Oxf. Mail, 21 Aug. 1953.
252. Oxf. Mail, 21 Aug. 1953, 11 Jan. 1954.
253. Ibid. 17 Feb. 1962.
254. Ibid. 22 Dec. 1955.
255. Ibid. 23 Oct. 1970; Kelly's Dir. Oxf. (1968 and later edns.).
256. Oxf. Mail, 24 May 1954; ex inf. Mrs. B. Ansell, clerk to the executive board, First Church of Christ Scientist, Oxf.
257. Kelly's Dir. Oxf. (1939 and later edns.).
258. Oxf. Mail, 9 Feb. 1972.
259. Ex Inf. Mr. M. S. Scarth, clerk to the Oxf. branch.
260. Oxf. Mail, 8 Nov. 1957.
261. Ibid. 14 July 1972; ex inf. Mr. D. S. Porter.
262. Oxf. Mail, 26 Sept. 1969.
263. Kelly's Dir. Oxf. (1935).
264. Ibid. (1945 and later ends.).
265. Oxf. Mail, 12 June 1961.
266. Ibid. 3 Feb. 1969, 16 Jan. 1976.
267. Ibid. 28 Nov. 1967.
268. J. C. Trewin, Tutor to the Tsarevich, 145-6.
269. Oxf. Mail, 5 Mar. 1973; Official List of Places Registered for Worship (1965); ex inf. Dr. N. Zernov, warden of the house of St. Gregory and St. Macrina.

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