St Edwards School, Apsley House, Big School, Chapel, Macnameras House, Main Gate, Tillys House, Wardens House is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1972. A Victorian School. 13 related planning applications.
St Edwards School, Apsley House, Big School, Chapel, Macnameras House, Main Gate, Tillys House, Wardens House
- WRENN ID
- peeling-remnant-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1972
- Type
- School
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- St Edwards School, Apsley House, Big School, Chapel, Macnameras House, Main Gate, Tillys House, Wardens House, Woodstock Road, OX2 7NN
- OS grid reference
- SP 505 089
- Coordinates
- 51.77725, -1.2691
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Edward's School complex includes several buildings: Big School, Chapel, Apsley House, Warden's House, Macnamara's House, Tilly's House, and the Main Gate. Constructed between 1873 and later, the buildings were designed by W. Wilkinson and H. W. Moore in the Tudor style. They are primarily made of red brick with stone dressings, except for the Chapel, which is built of coursed rubble.
The Apsley House, Warden's House, Macnamara's House, and Tilly's House are three stories tall with attics and feature two and three-light mullion and transom windows. Big School is two stories high and has five bays, each bay containing a two-light mullion and transom window, with the center bay having three lights and each bay topped with a gable. There is a cloister that leads to the Chapel, which has a buttressed tower adorned with pinnacles and a clock.
The Main Gate is two stories tall, with a central gate on the ground floor flanked by a light window on either side. Above, there are five windows, each with two-light mullion and transom design, topped with a gable. The school buildings are arranged to form a cohesive group.
Local climate
St Edwards School, Apsley House, Big School, Chapel, Macnameras House, Main Gate, Tillys House, Wardens House 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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