Description

ST CLEMENT'S STREET 1. 1485 (South Side) Stone's Almshouses (8 tenements) SP 5206 SE 11/495 12.1.54. SP 5205 19/495 II* 2, RCHM 247. "This Hospital for the poor and sick was founded by the Reverend Mr William Stone, Principal of New Inne Hall, In hopes of they Assistance Ao Dni 1700". 8 tenements, 4 on each floor. A rectangular range with the long axis East and West and facing North on to the road behind a stone wall in which are moulded stone gate-piers with ball finials. The North elevation consists of 2-storeyed ashlar with a stone band at the 1st floor and a stone slate hipped roof, in which are 8 gabled attic dormers. There are 2 moulded stone-faced stacks, one at each end. The projecting centre-piece, with the stone framed front doorway and central passage-way, has a 2-light stone mullioned and transomed window and is pedimented with tympanum is an oval inscription panel and a cartouche of arms (3 roses and a chief). In the ground and 1st floors are 10 single-light transomed casement windows in stone frames. The south elevation has 3 small and 2 larger dormers at each end. In the central passage-way is a stop-chamfered beam. Mr Stone (died 1685) was "assisted" by Dr Fry of Trinity College, who gave £l,0O0 and superintended the building as his executor. Built by Bartholomew Peisley for £250, with George Smith, carpenter, who was paid £180 for the woodwork (0xf Hist Soc MS II (1939), XXIV). For elevation and photograph see Plates IV and V in Field and Bunney English Domestic Architecture (1905) and for plan p 184 of RCHM Oxford City. For drawing by J C Buckler in 1823, see Bodl. MS Don a 3 I 69. Major restoration 1958.

Listing NGR: SP5251305999

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