Radcliffe Camera
RADCLIFFE CAMERA, RADCLIFFE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1099146
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Radcliffe Camera
- Statutory Address:
- RADCLIFFE CAMERA, RADCLIFFE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1099146
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Radcliffe Camera
- Statutory Address 1:
- RADCLIFFE CAMERA, RADCLIFFE SQUARE
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:
- RADCLIFFE CAMERA, RADCLIFFE SQUARE
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 51591 06345
Details
RADCLIFFE SQUARE
1.
1485
Radcliffe Camera
SP 5106 SE 9/148A 12.1.54.
I GV
2.
RCHM 1. Built 1737-49 by the benefaction of Dr John Radcliffe to the designs
of James Gibbs; William Townesend and William Smith, or Warwick, being the
master-masons. The lower storeys were built in Headington freestone and
the upper part in Taynton stone. In 1863 the arches of the ground floor
were glazed and a north entrance made with steps up to it. Repairs were
made in 1913 under the direction of Sir T G Jackson. The facing has been
patched in Clipsham stone. For history, see Bibliotheca Radclivinana (1747)
and "Exhibition Catalogue" ib. (1949).
All the buildings in Radcliffe Square form a group of the highest importance
being the centre of the University of Oxford.
Listing NGR: SP5159206345
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 245749
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bibliotheca Radclivinana, (1747)
Exhibition Catalogue, (1949)
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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