St Michael's Street, looking east - geograph

Felicia Skene in St Michael's Street - geograph

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St Michael's Street is a street in central

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. It runs between New Inn Hall Street to the west and Cornmarket to the east, with Ship Street almost opposite. Northgate Hall is located here. Also to be found off the street is the

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of the

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, a leading student society in the

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. Vanbrugh House at No. 20 is of particular architectural note as being "''almost a parody of Blenheim''" according to Pevsner. There is a

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, installed on 2 July 2002 by the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board, for the prison reformer Felicia Skene (1821–1899), located at 34 St Michael's Street.

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