THE SCHEME to illuminate historic buildings in Oxford city centre is to be extended this month.
The Wesley Memorial Church in New Inn Hall Street and Exeter College in Turl Street are to be in the next wave of celebrated buildings to be lit up as part of an ambitious plan to create "a cross of light" across Oxford.
The Saxon Tower of St Michael at the Northgate in Cornmarket and Mary Magdalen Church, in Magdalen Street, are already benefiting from lighting.
Ian Laing, the former High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, has funded the lighting introduced so far.
Lighting will be introduced on November 13 at the Gothic-style Wesley Memorial Church, which dominates New Inn Hall Street.
Built in the late 1870s by Joshua Symm, the architect was Charles Bell.
Exeter College, Oxford University's fourth-oldest college, has a commanding presence from both Broad Street and from Turl Street.
Its chapel, built by George Gilbert Scott in the 1850s, was designed as a copy of Sainte Chapelle in Paris.
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