Godstow Abbey is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. Abbey.
Godstow Abbey
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-belfry-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1954
- Type
- Abbey
- Address
- Godstow Abbey, Godstow Road
- OS grid reference
- SP 484 091
- Coordinates
- 51.77857, -1.29934
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Godstow Abbey is a building from around 1485 located on the south side of Godstow Road. It features a rectangular enclosure made of mainly medieval rubble walling. The east wall has a blocked doorway, and there are two blocked archways in the north wall. In the southeast corner, there are remains of what is likely an early 16th-century chapel, possibly part of the Abbess's Lodging. This section is also constructed of rubble and retains a stone frame for the east window.
Local climate
Godstow Abbey sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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