Front Range With Entrance Including A Wing And Link To Wing With Former Chapel

HM PRISON OXFORD NEW ROAD SP 5106 SW 8/10011 Front range with Entrance inc. A Wing & Link to Wing with former Chapel GV II Administrative range, former chapel and prison wing. Front Range c1800 with mid C19 and later alterations; A Wing and Link 1848-56 by H.J. Underwood and J. C. Buckler. Coursed rubble with stone dressings. Front range 2 storeys with Tudor arched, hoodmoulded entrance in canted wing to left; until the mid C19 entrance in the central crenellated tower with stone buttresses. Tower now with 2 hoodmoulded windows to ground floor and 1 at 1st floor with 2 cruciform arrow slits above and corbels below parapet. Ashlar dressed windows to range linked by continuous hoodmoulds at ground floor and sill bands to 1st. Interior converted for administration. Public executions were carried out on the tower until 1863. Link Building 3 storeys. 4 windows deep. Each angle with a machicolated tower; parapet to front rises behind former entrance tower. Machicolated parapet to returns. Inteior converted for administration but sanctuary arch, cornice and raked floor of former chapel extant. A Wing 3 storeys and semi-basement. Long range parallel to entrance range. 2nd and 3rd floor stone-dressed windows with slightly pointed arches and continuous sill bands. Large tripartite windows to gable ends light internal atrium with galleries to low-height cell entrances; cells barrel-vaulted.

Listing NGR: SP5106906178