Harris Manchester College is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1972. A Victorian Theological college. 2 related planning applications.
Harris Manchester College
- WRENN ID
- buried-hammer-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1972
- Type
- Theological college
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Harris Manchester College, Mansfield Road, OX1 3TD
- OS grid reference
- SP 517 066
- Coordinates
- 51.75598, -1.252
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harris Manchester College is a theological college primarily supported by Unitarians, which moved to Oxford in 1889. The college was constructed between 1890 and 1893 using Doulting ashlar with dressings of Darley Dale Millstone Grit, designed in the late Gothic style by Thomas Worthington and F. M. Elgood. The complex includes Arlosh Hall, built in 1915 from Clipsham ashlar, designed by Sir Percy Worthington. The chapel features decoration by the Morris firm and includes notable stained glass designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones.
Local climate
Harris Manchester College 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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