Oxford House (settlement)
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Oxford House in Bethnal Green, London is a community and art centre that began as one of the earliest "settlements".
Oxford House was founded in 1884 on the model of the recently-opened Toynbee Hall by a group led by the warden of Keble College, Oxford. It was conceived as a university settlement for specifically Anglican graduates and tutors to provide religious, social, and educational services for East End people and to acquire practical experience, especially if they intended to take holy orders.
The large red-brick building by Sir Arthur Blomfield was erected in Derbyshire Street in 1891.
Clergy associated with Oxford House included:
- Arthur Winnington-Ingram (Head of Oxford House 1889-97), later Bishop of London,
- Henry St John Stirling Woollcombe, later Bishop of Whitby and also of Selby,
- Dick Sheppard, Dean of Canterbury and pacifist,
- Percival Stacy Waddy.
Financial difficulties brought temporary closure in 1969. When it reopened it was no longer residential and the religious dimension was almost entirely lost. It housed the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement in 1992.
[edit] External links
- Oxford House website
- 'Bethnal Green: List of Churches', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11: Stepney, Bethnal Green (1998), pp. 217-226. Date accessed: 16 April 2008
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