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© Mr Chris Tresise
IoE Number:
245749
Location:
RADCLIFFE CAMERA, RADCLIFFE SQUARE
OXFORD, OXFORD, OXFORDSHIRE
Photographer:
Mr Chris Tresise
Date Photographed:
19 June 2005
Date listed:
12 January 1954
Date of last amendment:
12 January 1954
Grade
I
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RADCLIFFE SQUARE
1.
1485
Radcliffe Camera
SP 5106 SE 9/148A 12.1.54.
I GV
2.
RCHM 1. Built 1737-49 by the benefaction of Dr John Radcliffe to the designs
of James Gibbs; William Townesend and William Smith, or Warwick, being the
master-masons. The lower storeys were built in Headington freestone and
the upper part in Taynton stone. In 1863 the arches of the ground floor
were glazed and a north entrance made with steps up to it. Repairs were
made in 1913 under the direction of Sir T G Jackson. The facing has been
patched in Clipsham stone. For history, see Bibliotheca Radclivinana (1747)
and "Exhibition Catalogue" ib. (1949).
All the buildings in Radcliffe Square form a group of the highest importance
being the centre of the University of Oxford.