The cache is NOT on church property.
Risinghurst United Reformed Church is located on a slip road close to the A40 between Thornhill and Green Road Roundabout at Headington.
The estate of Risinghurst was largely built between World Wars I and II to house working class people who were moving into new urban centres - in this instance to take advantage of the flourishing motor industry in Oxford.
The name Risinghurst means 'rising ground towards the hurst or wooded hill'. It reflects the fact that Risinghurst was built on gently rising land running upwards towards Shotover Hill. Through part of the estate is the course of the Roman road that runs between Silchester and Towcester.
The congregation first came together during the Second World War, meeting at various locations in the district under the supervision of Temple Cowley Congregational Church. In 1945 they signed a covenant which formed Collinwood Congregational Church and in September 1949, the first church building, a prefabricated concrete structure was opened. The original simple church building is now used as a hall. The current church was built in the early 1960s and is a simple but effective expression of church architecture. Fund raising for the new church was launched through a 'Buy a Brick' campaign. Two months after the start of the campaign, £187.18s had been raised towards the £3,000 target. In 1972, the Church became part of the United Reformed Church.
The building provides a number of services to the community, including a weekly lunch-club for the elderly and a coffee lounge which is open for anyone to drop by for conversation, coffee, tea and biscuits on weekday mornings.
Three other congregations have services there: the Presbyterian Church of Korea, the Punjabi-speaking Asian Evangelical Church, and a Portuguese-speaking (largely Brazilian) Assemblies of God church.
The attributes show that no difficult climbing is required (in fact no climbing at all) and that it is wheelchair accessible. Please provide your own writing means.
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