MERTON COLLEGE, SOUTH RANGE HALL, FRONT QUADRANGLE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1369660
Date first listed:: 12-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:: MERTON COLLEGE, SOUTH RANGE HALL, FRONT QUADRANGLE
Statutory Address:: MERTON COLLEGE, SOUTH RANGE HALL, FRONT QUADRANGLE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1369660
Date first listed:: 12-Jan-1954
List Entry Name:: MERTON COLLEGE, SOUTH RANGE HALL, FRONT QUADRANGLE
Statutory Address 1:: MERTON COLLEGE, SOUTH RANGE HALL, FRONT QUADRANGLE

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:: MERTON COLLEGE, SOUTH RANGE HALL, FRONT 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:: SP 51739 06078

Details

MERTON COLLEGE 1. 1485 Front Quadrangle South Range Hall SP 5106 SE 9/480K 12.1.54. II* 2. The Hall in centre with the Fitzjames gateway on East. Retains part of original C13 wall at West end; the atchway at West end, leading to sacristy, was built 1508-21. The hall largely rebuilt by James Wyatt, 1790-4 and restored or rebuilt in 1872-4 by Sir Gilbert Scott. The original door with good ironwork remains.

Listing NGR: SP5173006075

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Legacy System number:: 245009
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire

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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.