Description

SP 5106 SW OXFORD HIGH STREET

612/8/10064 The Covered Market

GV II

Market. Rebuilt and enlarged 1834-40 by Thomas Wyatt the younger; 1842-4 and 1845-9 by H.J. Underwood; 18853-5; 1875 by H.J. Tollit; 1881 by Codd and Gardiner; 1886-7 by E.G. Bruton; 1888, 1892-3 and 1898. Ashlar and timber; iron and timber roofs clad in slates.
PLAN: Four N-S aisles, crossed by transverse aisles in grid pattern with ranges of shops, all covered by iron and timber roofs.
EXTERIOR: Market Street elevation. Three gabled bays to right [W] with ball finials, Venetian windows on first floor; and on ground floor blind arcade with imposts and keystones on left and centre and pilastered carriageway on right with small cartouche above; on left [E] hipped roof canopies cantilevered out over glazed timber and open ends to aisles, and large louvred hipped roof ventilator.
INTERIOR; The aisles have arch-braced king-post timber trusses with struts, and cast-iron roofs with clerestorey and tie-rods, tie-beams inscribed Dewer London 1839. Shops with pilastered fronts and clerestorey above.
NOTE: The Covered Market was begun in 1772-4 to the designs of John Gwynn, but all that remains of this work is the front range to the south facing High Street, Nos.10-15, which is listed [8/310]. The existing covered market behind [N] is a C19 reconstruction.
SOURCES: [1] Graham, M. The Building of Oxford Covered Market, Oxoniensia vol.XLIV, 1976. [2] Hibbert, C. Encyclopaedia of Oxford, pp.109-110.

Listing NGR: SP5140406269

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Covered Market at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5179234

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