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Latitude: 51.7516 / 51°45'5"N
Longitude: -1.2626 / 1°15'45"W
OS Eastings: 451003
OS Northings: 206133
OS Grid: SP510061
Mapcode National: GBR 7XS.5MF
Mapcode Global: VHCXV.27DL
Plus Code: 9C3WQP2P+JX
Entry Name: Front Range with Entrance Including a Wing and Link to Wing with Former Chapel
Listing Date: 18 February 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1369492
English Heritage Legacy ID: 246000
ID on this website: 101369492
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 Barnabas with St Thomas the Martyr
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Architectural structure
HM PRISON OXFORD NEW ROAD
SP 5106 SW
8/10011 Front range with Entrance inc.
A Wing & Link to Wing with
former Chapel
GV II
Administrative range, former chapel and prison wing. Front Range
c1800 with mid C19 and later alterations; A Wing and Link 1848-56 by
H.J. Underwood and J. C. Buckler. Coursed rubble with stone
dressings. Front range 2 storeys with Tudor arched, hoodmoulded
entrance in canted wing to left; until the mid C19 entrance in the
central crenellated tower with stone buttresses. Tower now with 2
hoodmoulded windows to ground floor and 1 at 1st floor with 2
cruciform arrow slits above and corbels below parapet. Ashlar dressed
windows to range linked by continuous hoodmoulds at ground floor and
sill bands to 1st. Interior converted for administration. Public
executions were carried out on the tower until 1863. Link Building 3
storeys. 4 windows deep. Each angle with a machicolated tower;
parapet to front rises behind former entrance tower. Machicolated
parapet to returns. Inteior converted for administration but
sanctuary arch, cornice and raked floor of former chapel extant. A
Wing 3 storeys and semi-basement. Long range parallel to entrance
range. 2nd and 3rd floor stone-dressed windows with slightly pointed
arches and continuous sill bands. Large tripartite windows to gable
ends light internal atrium with galleries to low-height cell
entrances; cells barrel-vaulted.
Listing NGR: SP5106906178
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