Latitude: 51.7496 / 51°44'58"N
Longitude: -1.2452 / 1°14'42"W
OS Eastings: 452206
OS Northings: 205926
OS Grid: SP522059
Mapcode National: GBR 8Z4.B0D
Mapcode Global: VHCXV.C9L3
Plus Code: 9C3WPQX3+RW
Entry Name: Library
Listing Date: 23 July 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1387551
English Heritage Legacy ID: 475525
ID on this website: 101387551
Location: Headington Hill, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX4
County: Oxfordshire
District: Oxford
Electoral Ward/Division: St Mary's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Oxford
Traditional County: Oxfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire
Church of England Parish: Oxford St Clement
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Library building College library Colonial Revival architecture
SP 5205 OXFORD ST HILDA'S COLLEGE
612/19/10058 Library
GV II
Oxford college library. 1934, by Sir Edwin Cooper. Buff-coloured English bond brick with tile and stone dressings. Slate hipped roof behind parapet with plain stone coping. Brick axial stacks.
PLAN: Rectangular on plan with library on ground floor; attached to north end of earlier college building. Neo-Georgian style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attic and basement. East front 1:5 bays. Tall triple-hung sash windows to ground floor with tile architraves and keyblocks, first floor windows above with louvred shutters, broad stone cill band to second floor windows, left bay slightly recessed and right-hand bay advanced, both with oculi to first floor. West garden front similar but 1:4:1 bays, the ground floor end bays have tall sashes in stone recesses with round arches and small brick balconies; the basement windows with rusticated stone arches set in stone band. All sash windows with glazing bars. Flat roof dormers. North side, 3 bays, centre ground floor window has cambered arch, bay to left is recessed. The library is attached to Old Hall, St Hilda's College to the south, the top storey of the canted north bay on the west side is of the 1934 build by Cooper.
INTERIOR: The rectangular-plan library is panelled in oak and galleried on all four sides, the galleries with balustrades between broad piers that support a coffered ceiling; the doorway architraves at either end have cornices on console brackets and small wooden urns above; the double doors are covered in leather; polygonal vestibules.
SOURCE: Buildings of England, p.245.
Listing NGR: SP5220605926
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