The Old Clarendon Building Oxford, England
Listed Building Data
The Old Clarendon Building 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1185456
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 12 January 1954
- Name
- THE OLD CLARENDON BUILDING
- Location
- THE OLD CLARENDON BUILDING, BROAD STREET
- District
- Oxford
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Grid Reference
- SP 51551 06474
- Easting
- 451550.9250
- Northing
- 206473.7088
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
BROAD STREET 1. 1485 (South Side) The Old Clarendon Building SP 5106 SE 9/146 12.1.54. I GV 2. RCHM 3. Built 1711-13 in Headington free stone and patched and restored in Clipsham stone in 1909. Hawksmoor received £100 in 1715 to "gratify" him, presumably in his capacity as overseer. The cost of the building was borne by the University from the profits of Lord Clarendon's History of the Rebellion". (For history, see Hiscock's A Christ Church Miscellany (1946), 44-47).
Exeter ColIege, The Old Ashmolean Building, The Sheldonian Theatre and The Old Clarendon Building form a group with The Indian Institute, Catte Street.
Listing NGR: SP5155106473
