Radcliffe Camera Oxford, England
Listed Building Data
Radcliffe Camera has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1099146
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 12 January 1954
- Name
- RADCLIFFE CAMERA
- Location
- RADCLIFFE CAMERA, RADCLIFFE SQUARE
- District
- Oxford
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Grid Reference
- SP 51591 06345
- Easting
- 451591.3750
- Northing
- 206345.0489
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
RADCLIFFE SQUARE 1. 1485 Radcliffe Camera SP 5106 SE 9/148A 12.1.54. I GV 2.
RCHM 1. Built 1737-49 by the benefaction of Dr John Radcliffe to the designs of James Gibbs; William Townesend and William Smith, or Warwick, being the master-masons. The lower storeys were built in Headington freestone and the upper part in Taynton stone. In 1863 the arches of the ground floor were glazed and a north entrance made with steps up to it. Repairs were made in 1913 under the direction of Sir T G Jackson. The facing has been patched in Clipsham stone. For history, see Bibliotheca Radclivinana (1747) and "Exhibition Catalogue" ib. (1949).
All the buildings in Radcliffe Square form a group of the highest importance being the centre of the University of Oxford.
Listing NGR: SP5159206345
