# St. Ebbes > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/St._Ebbes > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/St._Ebbes.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Ebbes > Source revision: 1312925960 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|District of central Oxford, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}} {{Use British English|date=December 2017}} {{Infobox UK place |official_name= St. Ebbes |static_image= File:Wall in St Ebbe's Street - geograph.org.uk - 1391326.jpg |static_image_caption= Wall in St Ebbe's Street, part of [Pembroke College, Oxford](/source/Pembroke_College%2C_Oxford). |coordinates = {{coord|51.751|-1.260|display=inline,title}} |os_grid_reference= SP511060 |label_position= left |population= |population_ref= |civil_parish= unparished |shire_district= [Oxford](/source/Oxford) |shire_county= [Oxfordshire](/source/Oxfordshire) |country= England |region= South East England |post_town= [Oxford](/source/Oxford) |postcode_area= OX |postcode_district= OX1 |dial_code= 01865 |constituency_westminster= [Oxford West and Abingdon](/source/Oxford_West_and_Abingdon_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) |website= [http://www.oxford.gov.uk/ Oxford City Council] }} '''St Ebbes''' is a district of central [Oxford](/source/Oxford), [England](/source/England), southwest of [Carfax](/source/Carfax%2C_Oxford). '''St Ebbes Street''' runs south from the western end of [Queen Street](/source/Queen_Street%2C_Oxford). __TOC__ {{clear-left}} ==Overview== The area takes its name from the parish church of [St Ebbe's](/source/St_Ebbe's%2C_Oxford), dedicated to Saint [Æbbe the Elder](/source/%C3%86bbe_of_Coldingham). The name was first recorded in about 1005, when the church and other nearby property was granted to [Eynsham Abbey](/source/Eynsham_Abbey).[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22803 Victoria County History of Oxfordshire: Medieval Oxford] The parish extended to the [River Thames](/source/River_Thames). By 1279 the area was known for property inhabited by the poorer townsfolk, and remained so until the middle of the 20th century. In 1818 [gas works](/source/gas_works) were built on the north bank of the [River Thames](/source/River_Thames) in St Ebbes, to supply the city of Oxford with [gas](/source/Coal_gas). St Ebbes expanded significantly in the 19th century, and by 1882 there was no room to expand the gas works, and new [gasholder](/source/gasholder)s had to be built on the south bank of the river. A railway bridge (the [Gasworks Bridge](/source/Gasworks_Bridge)) was built across the river to connect the gas works to the [Great Western Railway](/source/Great_Western_Railway) line. The gas works were closed in 1960.[http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/old_oxford/st_ebbes/stebbes_gasworks.html Old Oxford: St Ebbe's: The Gasworks] The area was redeveloped between the 1950s and the 1980s.Curl, 1977, pages 107–132Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 328 A new main road, [Thames Street](/source/Oxpens_Road), was built through the area in 1968. Between 1970 and 1972 the [Westgate Shopping Centre](/source/Westgate_Shopping_Centre%2C_Oxford) was built in St Ebbes, and much of the rest of the area became car parks. Only a few residential properties remain to the north of Thames Street. There is a small housing estate between Thames Street and the river, known as St Ebbes by the River. '''St Ebbe's Street''' runs south from [Queen Street](/source/Queen_Street%2C_Oxford) past [Pembroke Street](/source/Pembroke_Street%2C_Oxford) (on the right), to [Brewer Street](/source/Brewer_Street%2C_Oxford) (on the right). There the street becomes "Littlegate". [St Ebbe's](/source/St_Ebbe's%2C_Oxford) [Church of England parish church](/source/Church_of_England_parish_church) in Pennyfarthing Place, on the corner with St Ebbes Street is now a conservative [evangelical](/source/evangelicalism) congregation. St Ebbe's [Church of England](/source/Voluntary_controlled_school) Primary School is south of the river, outside St Ebbe's parish. The [Victorian](/source/Victorian_era) photographer [Henry Taunt](/source/Henry_Taunt) was born at Penson's Gardens, St Ebbes, on 14 June 1842. ==See also== * [Castle Street, Oxford](/source/Castle_Street%2C_Oxford) * [Paradise Street, Oxford](/source/Paradise_Street%2C_Oxford) ==References== {{reflist}} ==Sources and further reading== *{{Cite book |editor1-last=Crossley |editor1-first=Alan |editor2-last=Elrington |editor2-first=C.R. |author=Eleanor Chance |author2=Christina Colvin |author3=Janet Cooper |author4=C.J. Day |author5=T.G. Hassall |author6=Nesta Selwyn | title=Victoria County History: A History of the County of Oxford, Volume 4 |year=1979 |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=10}} *{{cite book |title=The Erosion of Oxford |last=Curl |first=James Stevens |year=1977 |publisher=Oxford Illustrated Press Ltd |isbn=0-902280-40-6 |pages=107–132}} *{{cite book |title=Encyclopaedia of Oxford |year=1988 |editor-last=Hibbert |editor-first=C |publisher=[Macmillan Publishers](/source/Macmillan_Publishers) |location=London |isbn=0-333-39917-X }} *{{Cite book |author=Sherwood, Jennifer |author2=Pevsner, Nikolaus |author-link2=Nikolaus Pevsner |title=[The Buildings of England](/source/Pevsner_Architectural_Guides): Oxfordshire |year=1974 |publisher=[Penguin Books](/source/Penguin_Books) |location=Harmondsworth |isbn=0-14-071045-0 |pages=292, 326–329}} ==External links== * [https://www.flickr.com/photos/61686932@N00/2360156257/ Photographs] on [Flickr](/source/Flickr). {{Oxford}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Ebbes}} Category:Areas of Oxford Category:Streets in Oxford {{Oxfordshire-geo-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [St. Ebbes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Ebbes) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Ebbes?action=history)). 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