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Latitude: 51.743 / 51°44'34"N
Longitude: -1.2323 / 1°13'56"W
OS Eastings: 453102
OS Northings: 205198
OS Grid: SP531051
Mapcode National: GBR 8Z5.M9B
Mapcode Global: VHCXV.LGD5
Plus Code: 9C3WPQV9+53
Entry Name: Comper Foundation Stage School
Listing Date: 13 May 1982
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1047076
English Heritage Legacy ID: 245968
ID on this website: 101047076
Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4
County: Oxfordshire
District: Oxford
Electoral Ward/Division: Iffley Fields
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Oxford
Traditional County: Oxfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire
Church of England Parish: Cowley St Mary and St John
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
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HERTFORD STREET
Comper Foundation Stage School
(Formerly listed as St. Mary and St. John First School)
II
Formerly St. Mary and St. John Infants School, c. 1902. W Bucknall and
J N Comper. Free Gothic. H-p1an school with central hall and classrooms
to north, east and south. Red brick with dormers of roughcast and imitated
half timbering. Tiled roofs. Windows throughout have Tudor arches and
single chamfer, heavy wooden casements with all glazing bars. Facade to
Hertford Street : Gabled wings with round coping and three stepped windows.
The centre is of six bays with crenellated parapet and buttresses with two
setbacks. Two large triangular dormers centred over second and fifth bays.
On central buttress a small cusped stone niche with figure of St. Mary and
foundation stone with worn applied lettering. Asymmetrical end facades,
each with Tudor lancets under central gable and plank door with ornamental
hinges to right hand side. Rear facade of five gables, the three in centre
over triple windows. Two dormers as at front.
Interior. Central hall with wide pointed wooden tunnel vault, brought
to seven corbels on each side by small cross vaults above large glazed partitions
which light the classrooms on east, and windows on west. Vault defined by
delicate roll-moulded ribs on arrises and perpendicular to the ridge, painted
brown, dark blue and gold (said to reproduce the original scheme). Classrooms
under tunnel vaults running out from walls of hall.
Listing NGR: SP5310205198
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