South Park commemoration stone is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 April 2017. Commemoration stone.
South Park commemoration stone
- WRENN ID
- calm-wattle-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford East MP: Anneliese Dodds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 April 2017
- Type
- Commemoration stone
- Address
- South Park commemoration stone, Headington Road, OX4 1NQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 528 061
- Coordinates
- 51.75198, -1.23652
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The South Park commemoration stone is a Grade II listed structure that honors the preservation of South Park. It was commissioned by the Oxford Preservation Trust and funded by Dr. David and Mrs. Joanna Randall-MacIver. Designed and crafted by Eric Gill in 1932, the stone was erected in 1935. It is situated in a gap in the roadside railings on the western boundary of South Park, on the southeast side of Headington Road, close to the park's entrance.
Made of Portland stone, the stone is a roughly-dressed monolith that stands approximately 3.6 meters high and slightly tapers towards the jagged top. On the northwest (roadside) face, there is a carved inscription on an ashlar panel that reads: ‘This park was/acquired by the/ Oxford/ Preservation Trust through/ the liberality/ of the/Pilgrim Trust/ and David/ and Joanna/ Randall-MacIver/ 1932’. The words 'Oxford' and the date '1932' are displayed in a larger font size.
Local climate
South Park commemoration stone 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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