Magdalen College, Cloister, Great Quadrangle
MAGDALEN COLLEGE, CLOISTER, GREAT QUADRANGLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1283245
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Magdalen College, Cloister, Great Quadrangle
- Statutory Address:
- MAGDALEN COLLEGE, CLOISTER, GREAT QUADRANGLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1283245
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Magdalen College, Cloister, Great Quadrangle
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAGDALEN COLLEGE, CLOISTER, GREAT QUADRANGLE
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:
- MAGDALEN COLLEGE, CLOISTER, GREAT QUADRANGLE
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:
- SP5213806200
Details
MAGDALEN COLLEGE 1. 1485 Great Quadrangle Cloister SP 5206 SW 10/419J 12.1.54. I 2. Was built 1475, the South side being finished 1490; the West range includes the old library which has a partly renewed timber roof of probably early C17. The exterior North front was rebuilt 1823-4 in Bath stone and the exterior of East and South sides in 1825-27, the architect being James Parkinson. Parts were refaced in concrete or synthetic stone, in 1946. The South Alley was re-roofed 1921-2.
Listing NGR: SP5213506190
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 244980
- 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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