Bonn Square

It is close to the original west gate of the city of Oxford, where the Westgate Shopping Centre is now located.

[2] The church stood at the front of the square, overlapping on to the present Queen Street.

[4] Meanwhile, protests also erupted about development work proposed as part of the Westgate Shopping Centre, with a Green Party county councillor being arrested during an attempt to stop the felling of London Plane trees and eventual demolition of the Westgate multi-storey car park.

[5] The redevelopment in 2008 made it possible to inspect and record a number of gravestones which had been buried since the church of St Peter-le-Bailey on the site was demolished in 1873.

[6] In May 2009 a multi-part sculpture by Diana Bell was set in the square "to commemorate sixty years of exchange" between the cities of Bonn and Oxford.

A paved square with a war memorial. People sitting on the steps. Pigeons waiting to be fed. Shops in the background.
Bonn Square and Tirah Memorial
Alternative view of Bonn Square with the New Road Baptist Church in the background.
The New Road Baptist Church itself.