The Ashmolean Museum and the Taylor Institute
41, BEAUMONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1047111
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Ashmolean Museum and the Taylor Institute
- Statutory Address:
- 41, BEAUMONT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1047111
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Ashmolean Museum and the Taylor Institute
- Statutory Address 1:
- 41, BEAUMONT STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- TAYLOR INSTITUTE, ST GILES STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM, ST GILES STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 41, BEAUMONT STREET
- Statutory Address:
- TAYLOR INSTITUTE, ST GILES STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM, ST GILES STREET
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:
- SP5116806563
Details
1.
1485
SP 5106 NW
5/523A
12.1.54
ST GILES' STREET
(West Side)
The Ashmolean Museum and the Taylor Institute
I
2.
Includes No 41 Beaumont street.
The combined building housing the Taylor Institution and the original "University
Galleries" (now incorporated as the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology)
occupies the site on the corner of St Giles's Street and Beaumont Street.
It was built in 1841-45 to the Neo-Greek designs of Charles Robert Cockerell
in Bath (Box Ground) stone on a plinth of Permian sandstone with the columns,
pilasters and entablatures of Portland stone and decorations in terra-cotta.
The Taylor Institution forming the East wing was founded, built and endowed
by Sir Robert Taylor. The Ashmolean Museum, forming the central range and
the West wing, has been altered and extended in 1892-5, 1900, 1908, 1923-8,
1933 and 1937-40. The most recent of these extensions (1939-40) giving a
farther frontage on Beaumont Street was built in Clipsham stone for the rusticated
ground floor, with Bath (Monks Park) stone for the upper storeys, to the
design of E. Stanley Hall.
Listing NGR: SP5116806563
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245853
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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