The Warneford Hospital Mortuary Oxford, England
Listed Building Data
The Warneford Hospital Mortuary has been designated a Grade II 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1245348
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 15 May 1997
- Name
- THE WARNEFORD HOSPITAL MORTUARY
- Location
- THE WARNEFORD HOSPITAL MORTUARY, WARNEFORD LANE
- District
- Oxford
- County
- Oxfordshire
- Grid Reference
- SP 53700 06106
- Easting
- 453699.6930
- Northing
- 206105.7160
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
SP 50 NW OXFORD WARNEFORD LANE, Headington
612/24/10042 The Warneford Hospital: Mortuary
GV II
Asylum mortuary. 1891, by Moore of Oxford [probably H. Wilkinson Moore]. Limestone ashlar. Welsh slate roof with moulded stone coping to gabled ends. PLAN: Small rectangular plan building with the main entrance on the south east end and a doorway on the south west side. Late Victorian free Gothic style. EXTERIOR: Gabled front with octagonal corner turrets rising from weathered bases and with lantern-like finials; broad moulded 2-centred arch with traceried panels either side of later double doors; above the doorway a window with three 4-centred arch cusped lights and cill with carved leaf stops; the gable above has flowing tracery in the apex and a stone Celtic cross on top. At the opposite NW end the gable has a weathered stack with an octagonal shaft. Moulded plinth and eaves cornice with carved leaf stops. The south west side has a doorway with a moulded shouldered architrave. INTERIOR not inspected. SOURCE: Parry-Jones, B., The Warneford Hospital, Oxford, p.22.
Listing NGR: SP5378206080
