Christchurch, The Great Quadrangle; The Tom Quadrangle Oxford, England
Listed Building Data
Christchurch, The Great Quadrangle; The Tom Quadrangle 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1198760
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 12 January 1954
- Name
- CHRISTCHURCH, THE GREAT QUADRANGLE THE TOM QUADRANGLE
- Location
- CHRISTCHURCH, THE GREAT QUADRANGLETHE TOM QUADRANGLE
- Parish
- Non Civil Parish
- District
- Oxford
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Grid Reference
- SP5141605984
- Easting
- 451416.4832
- Northing
- 205983.6221
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
CHRIST CHURCH 1. 1485 The Great (or Tom) Quadrangle SP 5106 SW 8/453E 12.1.54. SP 5106 SE 9/453E SP 5105 NW 12/453E SP 5105 NE 13/453E I 2. Collegiate: (a) West; and South sides, 1526 (John Lubbyns and Henry Redmayne, masons); the North range Circa 1668 (refaced Cl9). Includes Tom Tower, lower part 1526 (since refaced in Taynton stone), upper part 1681-2 by Wren with Christopher Kempster and the Oxford Robinsons, masons; top storey above clock refaced and much of West front restored by W D Caroe, 1909-12, in Clipsham stone; terrace and steps, 1842 by Sir Francis Chantrey. (b) East side, circa 1546, mainly refaced. (c) North side, late C17, refaced in Cl9. Altered 1962-3 and 1971. (d) Kill Canon Gate, late C17, raised by 1 storey 1876-8. (e) Staircase and tower in South range. Early Cl9 stone staircase (Wyatt, 1805) with Gothic fan-vault built between 1630 and 1640; top belfrey stage of staircase tower, 1879 by G F Bodley. Ante-room between tower and hall mainly early C16. (g) Hall on 1st floor, 1529, with modern (1878) parapet and pinnacles; rooms beneath remodelled and roof of hall (originally made probably by Humphrey Coke) restored in 1720. There are 11 wrought-iron lamp-brackets with round lanterns in the Quadrangle. The raised footpath round the Quadrangle, the remains of the Cloisters, is included in the listing. The wrought iron lantern in the Main Gate is included in the listing.
Listing NGR: SP5141406032
