St Johns College, Canterbury Quadrangle is a Grade I listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. A C17 College quadrangle.
St Johns College, Canterbury Quadrangle
- WRENN ID
- gentle-corridor-merlin
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1954
- Type
- College quadrangle
- OS grid reference
- SP 513 066
- Coordinates
- 51.75618, -1.2577
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St John's College, located in Canterbury Quadrangle, was built between 1631 and 1636 under the direction of Laud. The college was originally constructed using Headington stone and incorporated the old library from 1596 to 1598 in the South range. The masons involved in the construction included Richard Maude, Hugh Davis, and Robert Smith from 1631 to 1633, followed by John Jackson, Anthony Gore, and Harry Acres from 1633 to 1636. The entire building was refaced in Clipsham stone between 1922 and 1936.
The East and West sides feature a loggia and an elaborate centerpiece, possibly designed by Nicholas Stone, with statues created by Hubert le Suer. The pillars, originally made of Bletchingdon stone, were replaced with Portland stone in 1905. Significant internal alterations took place between 1970 and 1971. The garden front of the East Range has five oriels and a fan-vaulted passageway, retaining its Headington stone with dressings renewed in Clipsham stone in 1918. The upper floor houses a library that was fitted up in 1838, while the first floor of the West Range and the western part of the North Range serves as the President's Lodging.
Local climate
St Johns College, Canterbury Quadrangle 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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