Front Range With Entrance Including A Wing and Link to Wing With Former Chapel
FRONT RANGE WITH ENTRANCE INCLUDING A WING AND LINK TO WING WITH FORMER CHAPEL, NEW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369492
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Front Range With Entrance Including A Wing and Link to Wing With Former Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- FRONT RANGE WITH ENTRANCE INCLUDING A WING AND LINK TO WING WITH FORMER CHAPEL, NEW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1369492
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Front Range With Entrance Including A Wing and Link to Wing With Former Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRONT RANGE WITH ENTRANCE INCLUDING A WING AND LINK TO WING WITH FORMER CHAPEL, NEW ROAD
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:
- FRONT RANGE WITH ENTRANCE INCLUDING A WING AND LINK TO WING WITH FORMER CHAPEL, NEW ROAD
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 51003 06133
Details
HM PRISON OXFORD NEW ROAD SP 5106 SW 8/10011 Front range with Entrance inc. A Wing & Link to Wing with former Chapel GV II Administrative range, former chapel and prison wing. Front Range c1800 with mid C19 and later alterations; A Wing and Link 1848-56 by H.J. Underwood and J. C. Buckler. Coursed rubble with stone dressings. Front range 2 storeys with Tudor arched, hoodmoulded entrance in canted wing to left; until the mid C19 entrance in the central crenellated tower with stone buttresses. Tower now with 2 hoodmoulded windows to ground floor and 1 at 1st floor with 2 cruciform arrow slits above and corbels below parapet. Ashlar dressed windows to range linked by continuous hoodmoulds at ground floor and sill bands to 1st. Interior converted for administration. Public executions were carried out on the tower until 1863. Link Building 3 storeys. 4 windows deep. Each angle with a machicolated tower; parapet to front rises behind former entrance tower. Machicolated parapet to returns. Inteior converted for administration but sanctuary arch, cornice and raked floor of former chapel extant. A Wing 3 storeys and semi-basement. Long range parallel to entrance range. 2nd and 3rd floor stone-dressed windows with slightly pointed arches and continuous sill bands. Large tripartite windows to gable ends light internal atrium with galleries to low-height cell entrances; cells barrel-vaulted.
Listing NGR: SP5106906178
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 246000
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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