The Old Clarendon Building is a Grade I listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1954. A 1711-13 Academic building. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Clarendon Building
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-rotunda-shade
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1954
- Type
- Academic building
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BROAD STREET 1. 1485 (South Side) The Old Clarendon Building SP 5106 SE 9/146 12.1.54. I GV 2. RCHM 3. Built 1711-13 in Headington free stone and patched and restored in Clipsham stone in 1909. Hawksmoor received £100 in 1715 to "gratify" him, presumably in his capacity as overseer. The cost of the building was borne by the University from the profits of Lord Clarendon's History of the Rebellion". (For history, see Hiscock's A Christ Church Miscellany (1946), 44-47).
Exeter ColIege, The Old Ashmolean Building, The Sheldonian Theatre and The Old Clarendon Building form a group with The Indian Institute, Catte Street.
Listing NGR: SP5155106473
Detailed Attributes
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