Winchester Road from Canterbury Road, Oxford

Winchester Road and North Parade, Oxford

Winchester Road is a road in North Oxford,

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. It runs north–south between and roughly parallel with Woodstock Road to the west and Banbury Road to the east. It is in a desirable area with high house prices.

History and name

The area was formerly part of the estate of St John's College, and the road is named after the city and see of

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, whose

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is the

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of the college. Most of the houses are in the Victorian Gothic style, largely built between 1875 and 1882, designed by architects including Frederick Codd, William Cross, and William Wilkinson.

Local area

At the southern end is

Bevington Road Bevington Road is a residential road in central North Oxford, England. The road runs between Woodstock Road (opposite Observatory Street) to the west and Banbury Road to the east. Winchester Road leads north from halfway along Bevington Roa ...

, with St Anne's College, a former women's college of the

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, opposite. At the northern end is

Canterbury Road Canterbury Road is a road in North Oxford, England. It runs between Woodstock Road to the west and Banbury Road to the east. Winchester Road leads south from halfway along Canterbury Road, linking with Bevington Road that runs parallel to t ...

, with

St Hugh's College St Hugh's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. It is located on a site on St Margaret's Road, to the north of the city centre. It was founded in 1886 by Elizabeth Wordsworth as a women's college, and accepte ...

, another of the University's former women's colleges, opposite. Some modern ornamental iron gates at the junction with Winchester Road give access to the college's grounds. A little more than halfway up the road, there is a junction with

North Parade North Parade, or more formally North Parade Avenue, is a short shopping street in north Oxford, England. It runs between Winchester Road opposite Church Walk to the west and Banbury Road (with Norham Road slightly north opposite) to the eas ...

, containing local shops, to the east and Church Walk (with through access for pedestrians only) to the west. Towards the southern end on the west side is St Antony's College, a graduate college of the University. The Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies is at 27 Winchester Road, in the precincts of St Antony's College. This houses the Bodleian Japanese Library. Also to the east, just north of Church Walk, there is a good view of the tower and spire of the St Philip and St James Church, now the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (an institution accredited by

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Gallery

File:8and9 Winchester Road, Oxford - January 1981 - geograph.org.uk - 812869.jpg, 8 and 9 Winchester Road, designed by William Wilkinson (1876) in the Victorian Gothicstyle, and now used for student accommodation by

Hertford College, Oxford Hertford College ( ), previously known as Magdalen Hall, is a colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It is located on Catte Street in the centre of Oxford, directly opposite the main ga ...

. File:Gardens of 7-9 Winchester Road, Oxford 1980 - geograph.org.uk - 812874.jpg, The gardens of 7–9 Winchester Road, looking towards Banbury Road. File:St Hugh's College, Oxford - rear gates.JPG, The rear entrance of

, at the northern end of Winchester Road at the junction with

. File:St Philip and James spire.JPG, View of St Philip and St James Church, designed by

G. E. Street George Edmund Street (20 June 1824 – 18 December 1881), also known as G. E. Street, was an English architect, born at Woodford in Essex. Stylistically, Street was a leading practitioner of the Victorian Gothic Revival. Though mainly an eccle ...

, from the north end of Winchester Road. File:Church Walk, Oxford.JPG, View west along Church Walk from the junction with Winchester Road in the summer. File:Looking west along Church Walk, Oxford.JPG, Looking west along Church Walk from the junction with Winchester Road in winter.

References

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