Christchurch, The Great Quadrangle (or Tom Quadrangle)
The Great Quadrangle, Christchurch
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1198760
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Christchurch, The Great Quadrangle (or Tom Quadrangle)
- Statutory Address:
- The Great Quadrangle, Christchurch
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1198760
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Christchurch, The Great Quadrangle (or Tom Quadrangle)
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Great Quadrangle, Christchurch
- Statutory Address 2:
- The Tom Quadrangle, Christchurch
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:
- The Great Quadrangle, Christchurch
- Statutory Address:
- The Tom Quadrangle, Christchurch
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:
- SP5141605984
Details
SP 5106 SW 8/453E
SP 5106 SE 9/453E
SP 5105 NW 12/453E
SP 5105 NE 13/453E
CHRIST CHURCH
The Great (or Tom) Quadrangle
12.1.54.
I
Collegiate: (a) west; and south sides, 1526 (John Lubbyns and Henry Redmayne, masons); the north range circa 1668 (refaced C19). Includes Tom Tower, lower part 1526 (since refaced in Taynton stone), upper part 1681-82 by Wren with Christopher Kempster and the Oxford Robinsons, masons; top storey above clock refaced and much of west front restored by W.D Caröe, 1909-12, in Clipsham stone; terrace and steps, 1842 by Sir Francis Chantrey.
(b) East side, circa 1546, mainly refaced.
(c) North side, late C17, refaced in C19. Altered 1962-63 and 1971.
(d) Kill Canon Gate, late C17, raised by one storey 1876-78.
(e) Staircase and tower in south range. Early C19 stone staircase (Wyatt, 1805) with Gothic fan-vault built between 1630 and 1640; top belfrey stage of staircase tower, 1879 by G F Bodley. Ante-room between tower and hall mainly early C16.
(g) Hall on first floor, 1529, with modern (1878) parapet and pinnacles; rooms beneath remodelled and roof of hall (originally made probably by Humphrey Coke) restored in 1720.
There are eleven wrought-iron lamp-brackets with round lanterns in the Quadrangle. The raised footpath round the Quadrangle, the remains of the Cloisters, is included in the listing. The wrought iron lantern in the Main Gate is included in the listing.
Listing NGR: SP5141406032
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244875
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire
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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