ST JOHNS COLLEGE, THE BEEHIVES

ST JOHNS COLLEGE, THE BEEHIVES, ST GILES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1278860
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:: ST JOHNS COLLEGE, THE BEEHIVES
Statutory Address:: ST JOHNS COLLEGE, THE BEEHIVES, ST GILES

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Date:: 2004-12-04
Reference:: IOE01/11641/33
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1278860
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:: ST JOHNS COLLEGE, THE BEEHIVES
Statutory Address 1:: ST JOHNS COLLEGE, THE BEEHIVES, ST GILES

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.

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ST JOHNS COLLEGE, THE BEEHIVES, ST GILES

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 51270 06718

Details

OXFORD OXFORDSHIRE SP 5106 NW ST GILES 612/5/10025 The Beehives, St John's College II Block of student rooms. 1958-60. Michael Powers of Architects' Co-Partnership. Portland stone ashlar cladding; pitched blue slate roofs. 2 storeys plus basement. Plan comprising interlocking hexagons. Saw-tooth elevations to east and west, with blind northerly walls and windows orinted southwards. Large windows with obscured panels beneath. Pointed roofs with crowning spikes to projecting staircase roofs.

Sherwood and Pevsner, Oxfordshire p201.

Listing NGR: SP5126706719

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 246005
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 201

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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.