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Latitude: 51.7554 / 51°45'19"N
Longitude: -1.2601 / 1°15'36"W
OS Eastings: 451168
OS Northings: 206563
OS Grid: SP511065
Mapcode National: GBR 8YY.S9Q
Mapcode Global: VHCXV.34PM
Plus Code: 9C3WQP4Q+5X
Entry Name: The Ashmolean Museum and the Taylor Institute
Listing Date: 12 January 1954
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1047111
English Heritage Legacy ID: 245853
Also known as: Taylor Institute
Taylorian
ID on this website: 101047111
Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1
County: Oxfordshire
District: Oxford
Electoral Ward/Division: Carfax
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Oxford
Traditional County: Oxfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire
Church of England Parish: Oxford St Mary Magdalen
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Library building Art museum University museum Academic library Museum
1.
1485
SP 5106 NW
5/523A
12.1.54
ST GILES' STREET
(West Side)
The Ashmolean Museum and the Taylor Institute
I
2.
Includes No 41 Beaumont street.
The combined building housing the Taylor Institution and the original "University
Galleries" (now incorporated as the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology)
occupies the site on the corner of St Giles's Street and Beaumont Street.
It was built in 1841-45 to the Neo-Greek designs of Charles Robert Cockerell
in Bath (Box Ground) stone on a plinth of Permian sandstone with the columns,
pilasters and entablatures of Portland stone and decorations in terra-cotta.
The Taylor Institution forming the East wing was founded, built and endowed
by Sir Robert Taylor. The Ashmolean Museum, forming the central range and
the West wing, has been altered and extended in 1892-5, 1900, 1908, 1923-8,
1933 and 1937-40. The most recent of these extensions (1939-40) giving a
farther frontage on Beaumont Street was built in Clipsham stone for the rusticated
ground floor, with Bath (Monks Park) stone for the upper storeys, to the
design of E. Stanley Hall.
Listing NGR: SP5116806563
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