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The flag originates as the coat of arms of the former County Council of Oxfordshire and was created in 1949. Following reorganisation of local government in 1974, the arms ceased to be used by any organisation but the design was later adapted as a flag and widely used across the county.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) There are over 20,000 Grade II* listed buildings in England. This page is a list of these buildings in the district of Oxford in Oxfordshire. List of buildings Name Location Type Completed Date designated Grid ref. Geo-coordinates Entry number Image ...
Cranham Street, looking east. Originally an industrial area, Jericho grew because of its proximity to the Oxford Canal, which arrived in 1790.The Eagle Ironworks (now redeveloped into apartments), wharves and the Oxford University Press were based there and its residential streets are mostly 'two-up, two-down' Victorian workers' houses.
Oxford House in Bethnal Green, East London, was established in September 1884 as one of the first "settlements" by Oxford University as a High-Anglican Church of England counterpart [1] to Toynbee Hall, established around the same time at Whitechapel.
In 1953, James Morrell III sold Headington Hill Hall to Oxford City Council. It continued to be used as a rehabilitation centre until 1958. [5] Subsequently, the publisher Robert Maxwell (1923–1991), founder of Pergamon Press, took a lease of the building rented from the Council for 32 years as a residence and offices.
The gallery was founded by architect Trevor Green in 1965. [3] With funding from the Arts Council of Great Britain, the gallery survived as a venue for temporary exhibitions. It was widely known as MoMA Oxford, similar to other international modern art spaces such as MoMA in New York. [4] It was renamed "Modern Art Oxford" in 2002. [3]
The Headington Shark (proper name Untitled 1986) is a rooftop sculpture located at 2 New High Street, Headington, Oxford, England, depicting a large shark embedded head-first in the roof of a house. It was protest art , put up without permission, to be symbolic of bombs crashing into buildings.
The building was constructed in 1862–66 to the designs of Sir Thomas Deane of Dublin in the Venetian style (favoured by the Christ Church art historian John Ruskin). [1] Single rooms in the Meadow Building look out over either the college or the Christ Church Meadow , although originally, college undergraduates would be given a suite of rooms ...