NR No 29, known as Green House, was built SG EP for the idealist philosopher and liberal TH NORTH Green. A fellow of Balliol, he died a year ST GILES AND TO THE EAST EAST OF PARKS ROAD SPSJ St Philip and St James. The grand later, aged 45. NP&EL Nuclear Physics and Engineering BD Go through the gate opposite Keble, parish church for the new residential JT Radiohead were first signed to a Labs. Arup’s fan-shaped nuclear and turn right at TG Jackson’s joyously developments in north Oxford. Built by record label after a gig at the Jericho accelerator can be enjoyed for its purely inappropriate Electrical Laboratory (EL), GE Street (1860-6) in doctrinal Gothic Tavern in 1991; other bands local to the sculptural qualities, while the surfaces, with its garlanded centrepiece Revival, but it’s hard not to be impressed town include Ride and Supergrass. compared to Martin’s contemporary (1908-10). Following the route through by the scale and complete authority of RO The Radcliffe Observatory is arguably Brutalist work, are positively ornamental stodgy neo-Georgian, Hawkins Brown’s its execution. the most beautiful such building ever (1971-6) SG:BA Impressive late 17th-century design Biochemistry Department appears as an NME Suburban Gothic. An important constructed. A defining work of English MI Tastefully done modernist Maths explosion of colour. (Limited access) early example of the centrally planned Neoclassicism, it was built by Institute from 1964-6, following the one on the corner, set back a little for UM University Museum (1855-60). middle-class estate. William Wilkinson architectural showman James Wyatt in heights of adjacent medieval buildings, effect. Butterfield places the chapel’s Benjamin Woodward realizes Ruskin’s achieved a vocabulary of Venetian 1776-9, and adapts the recently and stepping its higher rear block back windows and decoration towards the architectural ideal here, especially in Gothic which produced impressive rediscovered Athenian Tower of the to emphasise the shape of the street as top to add to its height, while the terms of the craftsmanship of variety with consistency across 20 Winds for its top floor, decorating the it changes from St Giles to Banbury Road. interior is as awesome an experience as stone-carved foliage throughout the years of building (1860s-80s). EG rest with panels representing the zodiac. KQ MJP’s Kendrew Quad for St John’s one would expect. It also contains building. Inside is a vast glass and iron Bruton’s design for no 62 is one of the To Oxford’s shame, it is not a museum, College (2010) is the definitive current Holman Hunt’s The Light of the World in room, with naturalistic wrought-iron best, including a beautifully decorated or even accessible, but is the dining hall example of classy collegiate design. But a side chapel. (Limited access) decoration. Attached by an arcade on EP:UM A realization of Ruskin’s architectural ideal – University Museum SG:KQ Classy collegiate – Kendrew Quad doorway. and common room of a graduate juxtaposed with Ahrends Burton and K William Butterfield’s masterpiece, the south side is a chemistry laboratory, SC:SCC Ignoring every visual cliché of the Oxbridge college – St Catherine’s: dining hall SAC This concrete pavilion by Howell college, Green Templeton. Entry can be Koralek’s beautifully sculptural extension Keble College. Note the variety of modelled, in a stroke of genius, on the WS Killick Partridge and Amis ingeniously legally attempted via their porter’s lodge, to Keble (1970) on the other side of design all along this very long façade to Abbot’s Kitchen at Glastonbury. clad their building in a bronze designed contains St Antony’s College dining through the gates on Woodstock Road, Blackhall Road, it comes across as a the street, while the gatetower leads RH The Rhodes House is the first to weather. WALTON STREET AREA room, kitchens, and common rooms. but the better view is from the path into little too flashy. one not into the centre of the main example of Oxford’s misbegotten Holywell Street O X F OR D MAP SB Budget was a major consideration for Zaha Hadid is building a Middle East the building site to the south, if one can SGH St Giles House, an exceptional quad, but the corner, extending its attempt to avoid modernism: the 38 Originally a music shop, Gillespie, St Barnabas, the parish church for Centre to the north which will be get past the security men. (Limited example of a town house façade from magnificent size. neo-Georgian ‘Cotswold’ style, with its Kidd and Coia’s building (1971-2) fits Using this guide Select the area on Public place/courtyard/walk Oxford’s working-class Jericho unmissable when completed in 2013. access) 1702, satisfyingly proportioned TPL William Morris saved these squared rubble walls with ashlar into the picturesque charm of Holywell the map who wish to explore, such as neighbourhood (1869-72): it cost £7300 SA Two massive curved residential BS A 10.5 acre building site, where throughout by Bartholomew Paisley, with cottages from destruction with an dressing, here coupled with Herbert Street by lowering the front with the St Algate’s, labelled SA. Refer to the Public monument/art compared to £50,000 for Keble Chapel. blocks for St Anne’s by Howell Killick Rafael Viñoly is masterplanning the a pediment and beautiful gateway. article in the Daily News: ‘in their way as Baker’s typically fussy classicism entrance down some steps. But go column headed SA for captions to Royal works But Arthur Blomfield smartly chose to Partridge and Amis (1968). If the four 'Radcliffe Observatory Quarter', the EC JRR Tolkein and CS Lewis met at the important as the more majestic (1926-9). Its legacy pervaded: see inside Wadham, and up the raised buildings etc. Numbers/letters refer to design with cheap materials in an SPSJ others had been built, this would have university's largest ever single Eagle and Child as part of the ‘Inklings’ buildings to which all the world makes Lanchester & Lodge’s Inorganic walkway in Back Quad, to look down house numbers/names or descriptors Church/chapel/church building unacademic Italian Romanesque style, been one of the wonders of 20th-century discussion group. pilgrimage’. Chemistry building opposite on South into the interior’s huge skylight, which emerges from the concrete like a Municipal building/museum/gallery avoiding comparison with the Oxford. 62 MH Behind Middleton Hall is an extension TR Set back beyond a garden, the end Parks Road (1954-60), among many lavish Gothic churches, and creating a 27, 29 Ideal home. Exceptionally NME by Benjamin Woodward with wonderful elevation of Jackson’s Trinity residential others in the Science Area. sublime crevasse. (Limited access). Commercial/retail premises unique landmark for the area. beautiful houses by JJ Stevenson in the cut-brick window surrounds (c.1858). block makes for a fine prospect from ZPL Zoology and Psychology Labs. 35 A large timber-framed house of development. Despite the protestations TWQ Thomas White Quadrangle. Walk the street (1883-7). Leslie Martin at his most bracingly 1626 stands out in mostly small-scale Place of education SP Unlike Cambridge, the Greek Revival Queen Anne style (1880-1): note the red didn’t make much impact here, except for brick contrasting with white wooden of design quango CABE, construction has along Lamb and Flag Passage to see the WHP The picturesque one-room White uncompromising, 1965-71. A brilliant Georgian Holywell Street. Place of entertainment the fine St Paul’s church by HJ windows and cornice, and self- begun on the depressingly characterless back of Oxford’s best 1970s residential Horse Pub, nestled between the large-scale design vocabulary, but HMR Holywell Music Room, the first Underwood (1836). Herzog & de consciously ‘meaningless’ decoration. > Mathematics Institute, with a similar complex, by Arup Associates. The buildings of Blackwells. stunted without its planned expansion purpose-built concert hall in Britain Sports centre Woodstock Rd Meuron are building a new School of Humanities Division to follow. “Martin, precast concrete frame comes down B Oxford’s principal bookshop Blackwell, westwards, and covered in grey box (1742-8). Haydn performed here when he came to Oxford for an honorary Mansion/large private house Government to open next door in 2015. SAC thou shouldst be living at this over the wall in thin pairs of piloti tiptoes founded 1879, resides in a charming extensions. OUP Daniel Robertson’s impressive hour/Oxford hath need of thee!” that only engineers of genius could have 18th-century timber-framed house. M The interior grandeur of Champney’s degree in 1792. NR:SPSJ Street’s doctrinal Gothic Revival Private house: gabled/ungabled triumphal arch (1826-8) was a major achieved. NB New Bodleian. Giles Gilbert Scott’s Mansfield College can be seen from the 13 An early 17th-century stone house. NR BA EP Warren’s Balliol building of 1907 much maligned library extension is gate on the road, which is in fact the Laboratory/printing works influence on the Ashmolean. WS Wellington Square. Taste in transition: stands out with its pediment, dark yellow actually a classic of deferentiality, main entrance (1887-9). Work of engineering/public utility Leslie Martin and David Owers’s stone and impressive late 17th-century keeping the line of Broad Street and UC A pod-like University Club with a jolly modernist block forms the north end of design. Also his is the equally good turning the corner with a double curve, mohawk skylight, built for academics Notable personality the square (1973-6), while the rest is the range with pedimented projections the low front bowing to the Clarendon and technical staff by JBKS Architects Viewing point Victorian housing saved by the nascent further south.