Corpus Christi College, Emily Thomas Building
CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, EMILY THOMAS BUILDING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380216
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Corpus Christi College, Emily Thomas Building
- Statutory Address:
- CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, EMILY THOMAS BUILDING
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380216
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Corpus Christi College, Emily Thomas Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, EMILY THOMAS BUILDING
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:
- CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, EMILY THOMAS BUILDING
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 51654 06081
Details
SP 5106 SE OXFORD CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE
612/9/10063 Emily Thomas Building
GV II
Oxford college undergraduates' rooms. 1927-8; by T.H. Hughes of Glasgow, for Corpus Christi College. Ashlar with stone tile roof with coped gable ends with obelisk finials and parapets. Ashlar axial stacks with grouped shafts with moulded bases and caps.
PLAN: L-shaped on plan, situated on NE corner of Corpus Christi College; undergraduates' rooms with baths in cellar.
Collegiate Tudor style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-4 bay west front facing court, with gables to left and right, the left is projecting wing with slightly advanced 2-storey bay with corbel heads in the cornice; and porch in the angle to right with Tudor arch doorway and oriel above, the lower panels richly decorated, and above in the parapet an armorial device and date 1928; 6-light window at centre and 4-light window on right under gable, all with 4-centred arch lights. North elevation, gable on left with with shallow 2-storey canted bay with crenellated cornice with angel corbels, 4-centre arch lights, carved arms and date; two windows to right. 6-bay gabled east elevation, each bay with two 2-light windows with 4-centred arch lights. Metal window frames, some with iron grilles. Lead drain pipes with moulded rainwater heads and carved stone spouts.
INTERIOR: Timber newel staircase with turned balusters and square newels with tall finials.
SOURCE: Buildings of England, p.133.
Listing NGR: SP5165506076
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479930
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 133
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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