Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . The latter, once known as Seven Deadly Sins lane, now abounds withplaces of worship, of which, by a curious coincidence, there are seven betweenNew Road Chapel (37) at its southern, and George Street Chapel (43) facingits northern extremity, inclusive. Nearly at the cor-ner, beyond the dis-used burying groundofSt. Peter-le-Baileys(see 39), is situatedthe oldest Noncon-formist place of wor-ship in Oxford,— 37. New RoadChapel. Thechurchwas re-constituted in1780 by a union ofPresbyterians with anolder body of Baptistsf
Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . The latter, once known as Seven Deadly Sins lane, now abounds withplaces of worship, of which, by a curious coincidence, there are seven betweenNew Road Chapel (37) at its southern, and George Street Chapel (43) facingits northern extremity, inclusive. Nearly at the cor-ner, beyond the dis-used burying groundofSt. Peter-le-Baileys(see 39), is situatedthe oldest Noncon-formist place of wor-ship in Oxford,— 37. New RoadChapel. Thechurchwas re-constituted in1780 by a union ofPresbyterians with anolder body of Baptistsfounded in 1618. The present building was opened in 1721,and enlarged and improved in 1819 and 1865. On the west sideof New-Inn-Hall-street is a Meeting Boom for the Brethren/erected 1877, and a few yards N. a building till lately known as 33. New Inn Hall, one of the old inns or halls forstudents, formerly called Trillecks Inn. This inn was purchasedin 1369 by William of Wykeham, and by him conveyed to NewCollege (12), by which society it was rebuilt in 1460. During the. NEW ROAD CHAPEL- 74 Aldens Oxford Guide. Civil War, New Inn Hall was used by Charles I. as a mint, inwhich money was coined from the liberal contributions of collegeplate. A new wing was added in 1832 ; and a Chapel for theuse of students was erected in 1868 by the late Principal, , at whose decease in 1887 the Hall ceased to have anindependent existence, and it is now closed. Hard by, on landanciently belonging to St. Frideswide (see p. 61), is the Church of 39. St. Peter-le-Bailey, built 1872-4. The original sitewas at the corner of the street, where a church is known tohave existed in the twelfth century, having been granted to in a charter of Henry reign. It derived its namefrom its situation within the bailey of the Castle (69). In 1706,the church fell down, and the edifice which succeeded it, erectedin 1740, was demSlished in 1872 3 for the widening of the thorough-fare.
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