The postcard above shows the west side of New High Street, just to the north of Bateman Street, before 1906.

The New Headington village Methodist Chapel was built in 1888/9 at a cost of £362 12s. 4d. The article below, which appeared in Jackson's Oxford Journal on 17 November 1888, describes the chapel, which was designed by J. C. Gray of Blackhall Road, Oxford and built by W. Polley of Cowley.

The chapel opened on 18 March 1889, and a special service held in connection with the opening and presided over by Alfred Boffin was reported in Jackson's Oxford Journal on 23 March 1889, The financial position at this point was that “the contract for its erection was 300l., and the site cost 40l. Towards that sum 50l. was contributed on the day on which the foundation stones were laid, and the subscriptions and donations of other friends since had brought the amount up to 170l.” Some of the Methodists of the village of Old Headington who formerly must have walked over to Quarry would have found this New Headington village chapel more convenient, and its Bible was presented by Mr. E. B. Fielden of Bury Knowle House.

In August 1894 the Trustees of this chapel successfully fought a plan to relocate the Butcher's Arms pub to New High Street on a site immediately opposite the building. It was stated that the Sunday School at the rear of the chapel was then attended by about 120 children, and that the Band of Hope was held there.

This Wesleyan chapel became the church hall when Lime Walk Methodist Church opened in the early 1930s.

The shop that can be seen several doors up from the chapel at No. 24 survived as a grocer’s shop with Mr Schofield in charge until the 1950s, but has now been converted into flats.