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The Covered Market

A Grade II Listed Building in Oxford, Oxfordshire

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Latitude: 51.7528 / 51°45'9"N

Longitude: -1.2567 / 1°15'24"W

OS Eastings: 451404

OS Northings: 206269

OS Grid: SP514062

Mapcode National: GBR 8Z4.13N

Mapcode Global: VHCXV.56GN

Plus Code: 9C3WQP3V+48

Entry Name: The Covered Market

Listing Date: 9 March 2000

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1380159

English Heritage Legacy ID: 479683

ID on this website: 101380159

Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1

County: Oxfordshire

District: Oxford

Electoral Ward/Division: Carfax

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Oxford

Traditional County: Oxfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire

Church of England Parish: Oxford St Michael and St Martin and All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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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

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