 View of George Street from the Worcester Street junction looking east | |
 Location within Oxford | |
| Length | 0.2 mi (0.32 km) [1] |
|---|---|
| Location | Oxford, England |
| Postal code | OX1 2 |
| Coordinates | 51°45′13″N1°15′42″W / 51.7535°N 1.2617°W |
| east end | 51°45′14″N1°15′32″W / 51.7540°N 1.2589°W |
| west end | 51°45′13″N1°15′48″W / 51.7536°N 1.2634°W |
George Street is a street in central Oxford, England. [2] It is a shopping street running east–west.
Its eastern end meets Broad Street at a crossroads with Cornmarket Street to the south and Magdalen Street to the north. Its western end meets Hythe Bridge Street at a crossroads with Worcester Street.
The New Theatre Oxford, Oxford's main commercial theatre, is on the north side of the street. For a period, it was the Apollo Theatre but it has regained its earlier name. The Burton Taylor Studio is in Gloucester Street, which runs off the north side of George Street. Number 40 on the north side is occupied by Arts at the Old Fire Station.
Gloucester Green bus station is off the north of George Street at the western end. Companies including the Oxford Bus Company and Stagecoach in Oxfordshire operate services from here.
George Street is outside the formerly walled section of Oxford, running parallel with the medieval wall. Buildings on the south side of the street occupy plots that were formerly part of the defensive ditch outside the wall.
The former City of Oxford High School for Boys building on the south side of the street was designed by T. G. Jackson and built in 1880-81. [3] In 1966, the school moved to the Southfields Grammar School site and its former building became the University of Oxford Classics Department. Since 2007, the building has housed the University's Faculty of History.
W.F. Lucas' ready-to-wear clothing factory on the south side of the street was designed by Harry Drinkwater and built by local contractor T. H. Kingerlee in 1892. [4] As a factory, 300 employees worked on the site. [4] It is now divided into multiple retail and office premises.
The brick buildings of the former fire station and Corn Exchange on the north side of the street were designed by H.W. Moore and built in 1894. [5] By 1974, the fire station had moved to Rewley Road and its former building had been converted to a community arts centre (Arts at the Old Fire Station) run by the charity Oxford Area Arts Council and used occasionally by Anvil Productions, the Oxford Playhouse Company, for rehearsals. [5]
The present New Theatre was built in 1933. It is the third New Theatre on the site, replacing successive buildings completed in 1836 and 1886.
The Ritz Cinema on the north side of George Street was built in 1936. [6] Since then it has changed owners and names a number of times. It is now the Odeon George Street. [7]
Thame is a market town and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about 13 miles (21 km) east of the city of Oxford and 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Aylesbury. It derives its name from the River Thame which flows along the north side of the town and forms part of the county border with Buckinghamshire. The parish includes the hamlet of Moreton south of the town. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 11,561. Thame was founded in the Anglo-Saxon era and was in the kingdom of Wessex.
Adderbury is a winding linear village and rural civil parish about 3 miles (5 km) south of Banbury in northern Oxfordshire, England. The settlement has five sections: the new Milton Road housing Development & West Adderbury towards the southwest; East Adderbury to the centre, both with a village green and a manor house; and the new housing Development on the Aynho Road; and the northeast, which is known as Twyford, named after a small outlying settlement by a forked section of the River Cherwell.
Oxford Playhouse is a theatre designed by Edward Maufe and F.G.M. Chancellor. It is situated in Beaumont Street, Oxford, opposite the Ashmolean Museum.
Alvescot is a village and civil parish about 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) south of Carterton, Oxfordshire, England. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 472.
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Finmere is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, south of the River Great Ouse. It is on the county boundary with Buckinghamshire, almost 4 miles (6 km) west of Buckingham and just over 4 miles (6 km) east of Brackley in Northamptonshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 466.
Broad Street is a wide street in central Oxford, England, just north of the former city wall. The street is known for its bookshops, including the original Blackwell's bookshop at number 50, located here due to the University of Oxford. Among residents, the street is traditionally known as The Broad.
Walton Street is on the eastern edge of the Jericho district of central Oxford, England.
Water Eaton is a hamlet in the civil parish of Gosford and Water Eaton, between Oxford and Kidlington in Oxfordshire. Water Eaton was a separate civil parish until 1932, when it was merged with its neighbour Gosford.
Middleton Stoney is a village and civil parish about 2+1⁄2 miles (4 km) west of Bicester, Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 331.
Hythe Bridge Street is in the west of central Oxford, England, forming part of the A4144 road.
St John the Evangelist Church is a non-parochial church on Iffley Road in Oxford, England. It was built as the community church of the mother house of the Anglican religious order known as the Society of St. John the Evangelist. Since 1980 it has served also as one of the college chapels of St Stephen's House, Oxford.
Kencot is a village and civil parish about 2 miles (3 km) south-west of Carterton in West Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 101.
Harry George Walter Drinkwater (1844–1895) was an English architect who practised in and around Oxford. His work included several churches and public houses.
William Wilkinson (1819–1901) was a British Gothic Revival architect who practised in Oxford, England.
Hethe is a village and civil parish about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north of Bicester in Oxfordshire, England.
Wilcote is a hamlet about 3+1⁄2 miles (5.6 km) north of Witney in Oxfordshire, England.
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Rewley Road is in the west of central Oxford, England. It is located in St Thomas's parish.
Henry James Tollit (1835–1904) was an English architect who practised in Oxford.
