THE NUFFIELD INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH THE RADCLIFFE OBSERVATORY

THE NUFFIELD INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH, WOODSTOCK ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1047070
Date first listed:: 12-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:: THE NUFFIELD INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH THE RADCLIFFE OBSERVATORY
Statutory Address:: THE NUFFIELD INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH, WOODSTOCK ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1047070
Date first listed:: 12-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:: THE NUFFIELD INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH THE RADCLIFFE OBSERVATORY
Statutory Address 1:: THE NUFFIELD INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH, WOODSTOCK ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: THE RADCLIFFE OBSERVATORY, WOODSTOCK ROAD

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Statutory Address:: THE NUFFIELD INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH, WOODSTOCK ROAD
Statutory Address:: THE RADCLIFFE OBSERVATORY, WOODSTOCK ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Oxford (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 50904 07163

Details

WOODSTOCK ROAD 1. 1485 (West Side) The Radcliffe Observatory (Now the Nuffield Institute for Medical Research) SP 5007 SE 2/100 12.1.54. I 2. Built to the designs of Henry Keene from the benefaction of Dr John Radcliffe in "a calm and retired locality". The first stone was laid June 27, 1772 but in consequence of Keene's death the whole was not completed until 1795. The dwellinghouse, the 2 wings and the central part up as far as the platform were built of Headington Stone before Keene's death in 1776. James Wyatt, who succeeded Keene as architect, altered some of the external parts and raised the upper octagon building, basing it on the design of the Tower of the Winds; James Pears, of Oxford, was the contractor. The front extends 175 feet, each of the wings being 69 feet long and the top of the tower is about 106 feet from the ground. The 3rd storey consists of the octagonal tower, with 8 sculptures of the winds on the entablature and a large globe supported by bronze figures of Hercules and Atlas at the top, executed by John Bacon, RA (DNB). The bas reliefs, under the platform, represent the signs of the zodiac and the rising moon and setting sun and were modelled in Coade stone by Rossi, RA (DNB). The interior has contemporary and notable fittings including furniture designed by Wyatt. A curved covered way on the ground floor joins the East wing of the Observatory with the dwelling house on the East (see Oxf His Soc. XLI (1901) 319).

Listing NGR: SP5098107222

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'Oxford History Society' in Oxford History Society, , Vol. 41, (1901), 319

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.