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St Bernard's Road is a residential road in
St Bernard's Road is a residential road in North Oxford
North Oxford is a suburban part of the city of Oxford in England. It was owned for many centuries largely by St John's College, Oxford and many of the area's Victorian architecture, Victorian houses were initially sold on leasehold by the co ...
, England, connecting the southern end of Kingston Road and the northern end of Walton Street, at the junction with Walton Well Road
Walton Well Road is a road, about 400 metres (a quarter mile) long, near the centre of Oxford, England. It provides a link from central Oxford to Port Meadow.
Location
The road marks the northern edge of the district known as Jericho. At the ...
, to the west with Woodstock Road, opposite 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 ...
, to the east.
To the north is Plantation Road
Plantation Road is a residential road in North Oxford, England, connecting Kingston Road to the west with Woodstock Road to the east.
To the north is Leckford Road and to the south is St Bernard's Road. Leckford Place crosses it halfway ...
and to the south is Observatory Street. Leckford Place
Leckford is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England. It lies on the eastern bank of the River Test just to the south of its confluence with the River Anton, to the east of Longstock and south of Chilbolton.
The parish churchSt Nichol ...
leads north halfway along. The road is one-way from west to east, with traffic calming
Traffic calming uses physical design and other measures to improve safety for motorists, car drivers, pedestrians and bicycle-friendly, cyclists. It has become a tool to combat speeding and other unsafe behaviours of drivers. It aims to encour ...
constrictions. The houses are mainly terraced
A terrace in agriculture is a flat surface that has been cut into hills or mountains to provide areas for the cultivation for crops, as a method of more effective farming. Terrace agriculture or cultivation is when these platforms are created s ...
with some semi-detached
A semi-detached house (often abbreviated to semi) is a single-family Duplex (building), duplex dwelling that shares one common party wall, wall with its neighbour. The name distinguishes this style of construction from detached houses, with no sh ...
.
At the eastern end on the south side is a Grade II listed
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, H ...
block of flats, Belsyre Court, built in 1936.
History
This location was part of the route taken by King Charles I with hiscavalier
The term ''Cavalier'' () was first used by Roundheads as a term of abuse for the wealthier royalist supporters of Charles I of England and his son Charles II of England, Charles II during the English Civil War, the Interregnum (England), Int ...
s and 6,000 troops when he escaped at night from Oxford on 3 June 1644 during the Civil War
A civil war is a war between organized groups within the same Sovereign state, state (or country). The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies.J ...
. The road was previously known as Horse and Jockey Road (or Lane), after the Horse and Jockey Inn, formerly on the corner with Woodstock Road. It then became known as St John's Road, after St John's College, but there was some confusion with St John Street to the south, so at the request of residents it was given its current name in 1961. St Bernard's College, a former Cistercian
The Cistercians (), officially the Order of Cistercians (, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as the contri ...
institution that was closed in 1539 after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, was the name of the college from which St John's College developed.
Some houses were demolished to make way for the St John's College development of Arthur Garrard Close off St Bernard's Road, named after the bursar
A bursar (derived from ''wikt:bursa, bursa'', Latin for 'Coin purse, purse') is a professional Administrator of the government, administrator in a school or university often with a predominantly financial role. In the United States, bursars usual ...
at the College from 1949–67.
References
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