Presbytery to Roman Catholic Church of St Aloysius is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1997. Presbytery. 1 related planning application.

Presbytery to Roman Catholic Church of St Aloysius

WRENN ID
nether-jade-crimson
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oxford
Constituency
Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 February 1997
Type
Presbytery
Address
Presbytery to Roman Catholic Church of St Aloysius, 25, Woodstock Road, OX2 6HA
OS grid reference
SP 510 070
Coordinates
51.75952, -1.26137
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The presbytery to the Roman Catholic Church of St Aloysius was built in 1877-1878 by William Wilkinson of Oxford. It is constructed from yellow brick with Bathstone dressings and features some red brick diapering. The building has a gabled roof with stone coping, which has been reclad in concrete tiles, and brick lateral stacks, one of which has stone shafts.

This large presbytery is designed in the Victorian Gothic style and has a side entrance facing the church forecourt on the left, with the principal rooms located on the road front. The exterior is three storeys high. The east front presents an asymmetrical arrangement of four windows in two gables; the right gable has three windows on the ground floor and a canopied niche that serves as a corbel for the lateral stack above. The left gable features a buttress between two ground floor windows. The windows are pointed arch with transoms, and the ground and second storeys include quatrefoil-pierced tracery and hoodmoulds, with a continuous hoodmould on the ground floor. There are also two additional stringcourses above.

The left-hand south return serves as the entrance front facing the church forecourt and is asymmetrical. It includes a large lateral stack with a buttress, a canopied niche, and brick shafts. The central gabled portal has a moulded pointed arch, with an integral oriel window above and a tall stair window to the right. To the left, there is a gabled bay with two and three-light Gothic windows featuring transoms. Set back on the left is a lower two-storey wing. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Presbytery to Roman Catholic Church of St Aloysius 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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