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'''Freud''' (aka '''Freud's'''<ref>{{cite web| url=http://oxford.openguides.org/wiki/?Freud's | title=Freud's | work=The Oxford Guide | accessdate=2 March 2013 }}</ref>) is a [[café]]-[[Bar (establishment)|bar]] in a Victorian former church building at 119 [[Walton Street, Oxford|Walton Street]] in [[Jericho, Oxford|Jericho]], [[Oxford]], England.

The [[Freud]] café is located opposite [[Great Clarendon Street]] and the [[Oxford University Press]] is also opposite to the south. It is surrounded by the [[Radcliffe Observatory Quarter]] of the [[University of Oxford]], formerly the [[Radcliffe Infirmary]] site.

The Freud café is housed in the former [[St Paul]]'s Church, a [[Greek Revival]] building designed in 1836 by [[Henry Jones Underwood]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FsOx8eHkOC8C&pg=PA201 | last=Tyack | first=Geoffrey | title=Oxford: An Architectural Guide | year=1998 | publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford & New York | isbn=0-19-817423-3 | pages=201–202}}</ref><ref name="pevsner">{{cite book |title=[[The Buildings of England]]: Oxfordshire|last1=Sherwood |first1=Jennifer |last2=Pevsner |first2=Nikolaus|authorlink2=Nikolaus Pevsner |year=1974|publisher=[[Penguin Books]] | page=295 |isbn=0-14-071045-0}}</ref> The church was inspired by an outbreak of [[cholera]] in the area in 1831.<ref name="little13" /> The building has an imposing [[portico]] with [[Ionic order|Ionic]] columns. The architect [[Edward George Bruton]] added the [[apse]] in 1853 and [[Frederick Charles Eden]] remodelled the interior in 1908.<ref name="pevsner" />

In the 20th century, the church became [[redundant church|redundant]] and was closed in the late 1960s.<ref name="little13" /> After [[deconsecration]], the building was bought by the Oxford Area Arts Council and used as a theatre and arts centre venue. In 1988, the building was acquired by Secession Ltd to prevent the building's demolition. Freud opened as a café/bar in the same year.<ref name="freud">{{cite web| url=https://www.freud.eu/ | title=Freud Cafe Bars | website=Freud.EU | accessdate=15 January 2022 }}</ref> The cafe was created by David Freud, a graduate of the [[Courtauld Institute of Art]], who has an interest in buildings  and their interaction with people.<ref name="little13">{{cite news|title=Shadow over cafe culture | first=Reg | last=Little | newspaper=[[The Oxford Times]] |page=29 | date=7 March 2013 }}</ref>

There is sometimes live music, such as jazz, punk, [[post-punk]] or [[blues]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/reviews/venue/22/Freud | title=Freud | publisher=[[Daily Info]] | location=Oxford | accessdate=2 March 2013 }}</ref> The name is often written in Roman-style capital lettering as "FREVD", for example above the main entrance door.

In 2015, a new building for the [[Blavatnik School of Government]] of Oxford University on the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter site was opened immediately to the south of Freud. The scheme was opposed by the cafe's owner, David Freud, due to its size and height compared to the church building.<ref name="little13" />

There is another Freud café-bar in London.<ref name="freud" />

==See also==
* [[List of Italian restaurants]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{official|https://www.freud.eu/}}

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[[Category:Restaurants in Oxfordshire]]
[[Category:Italian restaurants in the United Kingdom]]
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[[Category:Former churches in Oxford]]
[[Category:Former theatres in England]]
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[[Category:Greek Revival architecture in the United Kingdom]]
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