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The Golden Cross Hotel

A Grade I Listed Building in Oxford, Oxfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.7525 / 51°45'8"N

Longitude: -1.2576 / 1°15'27"W

OS Eastings: 451344

OS Northings: 206238

OS Grid: SP513062

Mapcode National: GBR 8Z4.0VS

Mapcode Global: VHCXV.560W

Plus Code: 9C3WQP2R+XX

Entry Name: The Golden Cross Hotel

Listing Date: 12 January 1954

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1047323

English Heritage Legacy ID: 245399

ID on this website: 101047323

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 Michael and St Martin and All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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Description


CORNMARKET STREET
1.
1485
(East Side)
No 5
(The Golden Cross
Hotel)
SP 5106 SW 8/304 12.1.54.
I GV
2.
RCHM 103. The buildings lie back from the street and are approached through
(1) a gateway, C15 leading to a courtyard. The Hotel consists of (2) a North
range, C15, (3) a South range, mainly rebuilt in late Cl7, and (4) the East
range, C19.
(1) The outer C15 gateway has moulded wood jambs, a 4-centred arch in a
square head with leaves carved in the spandrels. The North spandrel has
a shield of arms of New College and the shield on the South has been mutilated
by the insertion of telephone cables.
(2) The North range is a 2-storeyed plastered timber-framed structure with
attics in a Welsh slate roof. There is a C18 red brick shaft rising at
eaves level. The upper floor projects and has in it five original moulded
wood oriels supported on moulded coved cornices; the front lights of each
seem to be late Cl7 insertions.
Interior:- Some moulded ceiling beams; the oriels have internal 4- centred
arched heads. In the 2 lst floor rooms on the West are some good late
C16 wall paintings which in part are overlaid by some of early C17 date.
Interior remodeled in 1968.
(3) The South range is 3-storeyed timber-framed with 4 gabled projecting
bays. In the 1st and 2nd floors are, in the 3 westernmost bays, some original
3-light windows with semi-circular keystoned centre lights. The ground floor
has been modernised in parts.
Interior. Some C17 panelling and late Cl7 staircase. Interior remodeled
in 1968. Drawing by J C Buckler, 1824, in Boldeian M S Don A 2 No 26) History.
See "The Golden Cross" (1948) pages 19; Notes and queries. 193 (August 7
1948), 332 and Antiq Jnl XXVII (1947) Plate XIX.

Nos 1 to 3 (consec), 5, 8 to 10 (consec) and Nos 1 to 3 (consec) High Street
form a group.


Listing NGR: SP5134406238

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