STONES ALMSHOUSES (8 TENEMENTS)

STONES ALMSHOUSES (8 TENEMENTS), ST CLEMENTS STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1047125
Date first listed:: 12-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:: STONES ALMSHOUSES (8 TENEMENTS)
Statutory Address:: STONES ALMSHOUSES (8 TENEMENTS), ST CLEMENTS STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1047125
Date first listed:: 12-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:: STONES ALMSHOUSES (8 TENEMENTS)
Statutory Address 1:: STONES ALMSHOUSES (8 TENEMENTS), ST CLEMENTS STREET

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.

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

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Location

Statutory Address:: STONES ALMSHOUSES (8 TENEMENTS), ST CLEMENTS 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:: SP 52513 05999

Details

ST CLEMENT'S STREET 1. 1485 (South Side) Stone's Almshouses (8 tenements) SP 5206 SE 11/495 12.1.54. SP 5205 19/495 II* 2, RCHM 247. "This Hospital for the poor and sick was founded by the Reverend Mr William Stone, Principal of New Inne Hall, In hopes of they Assistance Ao Dni 1700". 8 tenements, 4 on each floor. A rectangular range with the long axis East and West and facing North on to the road behind a stone wall in which are moulded stone gate-piers with ball finials. The North elevation consists of 2-storeyed ashlar with a stone band at the 1st floor and a stone slate hipped roof, in which are 8 gabled attic dormers. There are 2 moulded stone-faced stacks, one at each end. The projecting centre-piece, with the stone framed front doorway and central passage-way, has a 2-light stone mullioned and transomed window and is pedimented with tympanum is an oval inscription panel and a cartouche of arms (3 roses and a chief). In the ground and 1st floors are 10 single-light transomed casement windows in stone frames. The south elevation has 3 small and 2 larger dormers at each end. In the central passage-way is a stop-chamfered beam. Mr Stone (died 1685) was "assisted" by Dr Fry of Trinity College, who gave £l,0O0 and superintended the building as his executor. Built by Bartholomew Peisley for £250, with George Smith, carpenter, who was paid £180 for the woodwork (0xf Hist Soc MS II (1939), XXIV). For elevation and photograph see Plates IV and V in Field and Bunney English Domestic Architecture (1905) and for plan p 184 of RCHM Oxford City. For drawing by J C Buckler in 1823, see Bodl. MS Don a 3 I 69. Major restoration 1958.

Listing NGR: SP5251305999

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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of the City of Oxford, (1939), 184
Field, , Bunney, , English Domestic Architecture of the 17th and 18th Centuries, (1905)
'Oxford History Society' in Oxford History Society, , Vol. 26, (1939)

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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.