High Street
Oxford, OX1 4BG
New Hall Inn Street, Oxford.
(Image taken 14th April 2018)
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New Inn Hall Street is a street in central Oxford, and is one of Oxford's oldest streets.[1] It is a shopping street running north-south parallel and to the west of Cornmarket Street, with George Street to the north and Bonn Square at the west end of Queen Street to the south. St Michael's Street leads off the street to the east near the northern end. Shoe Lane to the east leads to the Clarendon Centre, a modern shopping centre.
St Peter's College, University of Oxford (formerly St Peter's Hall) is on the west side of the street. The college occupies the site of two of the University's oldest Inns (medieval hostels), Bishop Trellick's, later New Inn Hall (after which the street is named), and Rose Hall, both founded in the 13th century. The college chapel was built in 1874 on New Inn Hall Street, originally as the parish Church of St Peter-le-Bailey. Two previous church buildings of the same name were previously at the southern end of the street, near Bonn Square, where the graveyard used to be. The church was so named because of its proximity to Oxford Castle.
Amongst the students of New Inn Hall was John Wesley, grandfather of the John and Charles Wesley regarded as the founders of Methodism. The first Methodist Meeting House in Oxford was in the street, on a site opposite its present-day successor Wesley Memorial Church.
The City of Oxford High School for Boys occupied a site on the corner with George Street until 1966. The building now houses the University's Faculty of History.
Ref: Wikipedia 15/04/18
Four tenement blocks New Inn Hall Street, Oxford each with it's own cast iron boot scraper inside, curtilage of building, right side of doorway, see boot scraper image below. (Images taken 14th April 2018)
Cast iron boot scraper incorporated into right hand side of wall to doorway - 4 tenament blocks have replica boot scrapers. New Inn Hall Street, Oxford. (Image taken 14th April 2018)
Metal bar across boot scraper cavity right hand side doorway, St Michael's College, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford. (Image taken 25th July 2015)
Metal bar across boot scraper cavity, right hand side of closed off doorway, St Michaels' College, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford. (Image taken 25th July 2015)
Wrought iron boot scraper, right hand side of main door. The Church of St Peter-le-Bailey, New Inn Hall Street, has existed in or near the area now known as Bonn Square, since the twelfth century. The suffix "le-Bailey" reflected its position close to the castle and served to distinguish it from Oxford's other church dedicated to the same saint, St Peter in the East. It existed as a parish church until 1961, when the parish of St Peter-le-Bailey was combined with that of St Ebbe. During the lifetime of the parish there have been three distinct buildings bearing the name St Peter-le-Bailey.
Image taken through iron railing gate 14th April 2018.
http://monuments.oxfordshirefhs.org.uk/opb/history.htm 15/04/18
