The Warneford Hospital: Mortuary
THE WARNEFORD HOSPITAL: MORTUARY, WARNEFORD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245348
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1997
- List Entry Name:
- The Warneford Hospital: Mortuary
- Statutory Address:
- THE WARNEFORD HOSPITAL: MORTUARY, WARNEFORD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245348
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1997
- List Entry Name:
- The Warneford Hospital: Mortuary
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WARNEFORD HOSPITAL: MORTUARY, WARNEFORD LANE
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 WARNEFORD HOSPITAL: MORTUARY, WARNEFORD LANE
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 53700 06106
Details
SP 50 NW
612/24/10042
OXFORD
WARNEFORD LANE, Headington
The Warneford Hospital: Mortuary
GV
II
Asylum mortuary. 1891, by Moore of Oxford [probably H. Wilkinson Moore]. Limestone ashlar. Welsh slate roof with moulded stone coping to gabled ends. PLAN: Small rectangular plan building with the main entrance on the south east end and a doorway on the south west side. Late Victorian free Gothic style. EXTERIOR: Gabled front with octagonal corner turrets rising from weathered bases and with lantern-like finials; broad moulded 2-centred arch with traceried panels either side of later double doors; above the doorway a window with three 4-centred arch cusped lights and cill with carved leaf stops; the gable above has flowing tracery in the apex and a stone Celtic cross on top. At the opposite NW end the gable has a weathered stack with an octagonal shaft. Moulded plinth and eaves cornice with carved leaf stops. The south west side has a doorway with a moulded shouldered architrave. INTERIOR not inspected.
SOURCE: Parry-Jones, B., The Warneford Hospital, Oxford, p.22.
Listing NGR: SP5370006106
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468689
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Parry Jones, B, The Warneford Hospital Oxford 1826-1976, (), 22
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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