The Covered Market
THE COVERED MARKET, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380159
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-2000
- List Entry Name:
- The Covered Market
- Statutory Address:
- THE COVERED MARKET, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380159
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-2000
- List Entry Name:
- The Covered Market
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COVERED MARKET, HIGH STREET
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 COVERED MARKET, HIGH STREET
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 51404 06269
Details
SP 5106 SW OXFORD HIGH STREET
612/8/10064 The Covered Market
GV II
Market. Rebuilt and enlarged 1834-40 by Thomas Wyatt the younger; 1842-4 and 1845-9 by H.J. Underwood; 18853-5; 1875 by H.J. Tollit; 1881 by Codd and Gardiner; 1886-7 by E.G. Bruton; 1888, 1892-3 and 1898. Ashlar and timber; iron and timber roofs clad in slates.
PLAN: Four N-S aisles, crossed by transverse aisles in grid pattern with ranges of shops, all covered by iron and timber roofs.
EXTERIOR: Market Street elevation. Three gabled bays to right [W] with ball finials, Venetian windows on first floor; and on ground floor blind arcade with imposts and keystones on left and centre and pilastered carriageway on right with small cartouche above; on left [E] hipped roof canopies cantilevered out over glazed timber and open ends to aisles, and large louvred hipped roof ventilator.
INTERIOR; The aisles have arch-braced king-post timber trusses with struts, and cast-iron roofs with clerestorey and tie-rods, tie-beams inscribed Dewer London 1839. Shops with pilastered fronts and clerestorey above.
NOTE: The Covered Market was begun in 1772-4 to the designs of John Gwynn, but all that remains of this work is the front range to the south facing High Street, Nos.10-15, which is listed [8/310]. The existing covered market behind [N] is a C19 reconstruction.
SOURCES: [1] Graham, M. The Building of Oxford Covered Market, Oxoniensia vol.XLIV, 1976. [2] Hibbert, C. Encyclopaedia of Oxford, pp.109-110.
Listing NGR: SP5140406269
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479683
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hibbert, C, The Encyclopaedia of Oxford, (), 109-110
Graham, M, Oxeniensia in The Building of Oxford Covered Market, (1976)
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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