UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, ST CROSS BUILDING

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, ST CROSS BUILDING, MANOR ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1369496
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:: UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, ST CROSS BUILDING
Statutory Address:: UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, ST CROSS BUILDING, MANOR ROAD

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Date:: 2002-07-03
Reference:: IOE01/02384/23
Rights:: © S. F. Jamieson. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1369496
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1993
List Entry Name:: UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, ST CROSS BUILDING
Statutory Address 1:: UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, ST CROSS BUILDING, MANOR ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, ST CROSS BUILDING, MANOR ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Oxford (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 52009 06758

Details

OXFORD MANOR ROAD OXFORDSHIRE SP 5106 NE SP 50 NW 612/6/10029 St Cross Building, 612/24/10029 University of Oxford II* Library and teaching space for Law, English and Statistics. 1961-65. Sir Leslie Martin and Colin St John Wilson. Buff brick with a raked joint to every third course, black anodised aluminium; flat roof. Compact, interlocking plan of one to three storeys comprising three libraries, each of different sizes and at different levels, each with a double-height top- lit reading room with ancillary stack space; also lecture theatre and other teaching space. Central external staircase rises three storeys with entrances at each level.

L. Martin, Buildings and Ideas 1933-83.

Listing NGR: SP5197206757

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Legacy System number:: 246015
Legacy System:: LBS

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Martin, L, Buildings and Ideas 1933-1983

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.