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I can't locate the house yet... but the church is St Philip and St James, Woodstock Road, Oxford, designed by G.E. Street. So the houses must be somewhere around Banbury Road to the south-east of the church. Maybe Norham Gardens, Winchester Road, Bradmore Road. I've tried looking through these streets on google earth but can't find it yet.

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Andy's comment already hit the mark, this is No. 54 Banbury Road, North Oxford, named "Laleham" at that time, seen from south east. Built in 1866 by John Gibbs. A front view of Laleham House is also available in this album. Provided both photographs were taken at the same occasion, this view could be supposed to be made between 1870 and 1872. This was the time when the family of literary scholar Thomas Arnold the Younger lived here. Mr. Arnold offered tutorials for Oxford Undergraduates and provided his pupils with accomodation in Laleham House. After his fateful decision to (re)convert to Catholicism in 1876, Mr. Arnold gave up tutoring and the house was sold to a group of evangelic clergymen, eventually becoming the main building of Wycliffe Hall, today the 5th Permanent Private Hall in the University of Oxford. In the 1880s, it was considerably extended with south & north wings (slightly different in style & brick color), thus, you won't have a view on St. Philip and St. James from here anymore. H. W. Taunt took a photograph from a similar viewpoint in 1903 which may be worth to compare. The next house in the background is No. 56, "Wykeham" where Queen Victoria's son Prince Leopold resided at that time during his undergraduate term at Christ Church. The next two gables are those of No. 58, "Norham House", and finally the last house in the background is No. 60, "Shrublands", also imaged in this album. Sources: - T. Hinchcliffe: North Oxford (Yale Univ. Press) - A. Saint: Three Oxford Architects (Oxoniensia) - Historic England Archive, Red Box Collection - English Wikipedia article "Wycliffe Hall" - M. Trevor - The Arnolds (C. Scribner's Sons)

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No. 3, Norham Gardens, named "Garford House". Grade II listed. Built in 1866/67, architect: Charles Buckeridge. This photograph shows the house just like it was originally built. Later, in the 1890s it was heavily extended (by about 50%) to the west (right), the entrance was moved to the street side and a large porch was added. The conservatory seen here was demolished, a new one being built at the houses' southeast side. Photographs from the 1960s show a second entrance door, vanished again in the 2000s, thus this house would have had been temporarily subdivided into multiple flats. That's why the brickwork of the front fassade looks a bit cobbled together today. Offered for sale at £ 5.5m in 2017, finally sold in 2022 to Atlantic Institute who refurbished the house as an 8-bedroom fellows residence and named it "Kopanong". The house in the background on the left is No. 5 Norham Gardens (by W. WIlkinson, 1865) which, although later divided into 4 flats, has retained its original character since 150 years. Sources: - T. Hinchcliffe: North Oxford (Yale Univ. Press) - Historic England Archive, Red Box Collection