article_snippet.sent: In the early 1970s, Sir Richard Branson brought The Old Chapel into residential use while Sir Richard Branson was setting up Sir Richard Branson Virgin recording business.
article_snippet.sent: Sir Richard Branson converted The Old Chapel in Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire, into a home in the 1970s .
article_snippet.sent: At the time Sir Richard Branson converted the property, Sir Richard Branson had a recording studio in an old manor house a few miles away from the chapel at South Leigh in Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire.
article_snippet.sent: At The Manor, the first Virgin albums, such as Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, were recorded and Sir Richard Branson would use The Old Chapel as a weekend retreat.
article_snippet.sent: I saw Sir Richard Branson coming and going into The Old Chapel in the 1970s,' says South Leigh resident Martin Collet, 57. '
article_snippet.sent: Sir Richard Branson brought The Old Chapel into residential use while Sir Richard Branson was setting up Sir Richard Branson Virgin recording business .
article_snippet.sent: Sir Richard Branson adds that The Old Chapel wasn't always a complete retreat from Sir Richard Branson's rock 'n' roll world. '
article_snippet.sent: Sir Richard Branson often had parties there and The Old Chapel wasn't always a complete retreat from Branson's rock
article_snippet.sent: 'n' roll world heard the music, even though The Old Chapel wasn't always a complete retreat from Branson's rock 'n' roll world were four doors away
article_snippet.sent: Sir Richard Branson's love affair with this part of Oxfordshire continued after Branson's love affair with this part of Oxfordshire left The Old Chapel.
article_snippet.sent: Branson's love affair with this part of Oxfordshire owned The Manor until the 1990s and, for two decades, also owned Mill End House in the village of Kidlington, which Branson's love affair with this part of Oxfordshire sold to Branson's love affair with this part of Oxfordshire children a few years ago when Branson's love affair with this part of Oxfordshire moved Branson's love affair with this part of Oxfordshire base to Necker Island in the Caribbean. '
article_snippet.sent: Sir Richard Branson did a superb job on The Old Chapel,' says Rowan Andrews, the home's current owner, who bought it in 2007. '
article_snippet.sent: Sir Richard Branson haven't had to do much, apart from putting in solid oak flooring and new central heating with Victorian-style radiators.'
article_snippet.sent: At the time Branson's love affair with this part of Oxfordshire converted the property, Sir Richard Branson had a recording studio in an old manor house a few miles away from The Old Chapel .
article_snippet.sent: It's fitting, then, that a century and a half later, 85 years after Wesley's death, The village of South Leigh came to have a Wesleyan Methodist chapel of The village of South Leigh own – the very property that Sir Richard Branson would one day end up converting.
article_snippet.sent: Unique features: Converted by Sir Richard Branson; former Wesleyan chapel in the village where John Wesley gave John Wesley .
article_snippet.sent: Rowan only found out Sir Richard Branson had been a previous owner on Rowan second viewing. '
article_snippet.sent: At the time Rowan converted a property in South Leigh, Sir Richard Branson had a recording studio in an old manor house a few miles away from the chapel . '
article_snippet.sent: Sir Richard Branson did a superb job on the chapel,' says Rowan Andrews, the home's current owner, pictured is the kitchen .
article_snippet.sent: Features that Sir Richard Branson added include pine banisters and large round windows offering views across surrounding countryside.
highlights_snippet.sent: Sir Richard Branson converted The Old Chapel into a home in the 1970s .
  