Headington Quarry

Last updated

Headington Quarry
  • Quarry
The Kilns 1997.jpg
The Kilns, where the author C. S. Lewis lived
Oxfordshire UK location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Headington Quarry
Location within Oxfordshire
OS grid reference SP553070
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Oxford
Postcode district OX3
Dialling code 01865
Police Thames Valley
Fire Oxfordshire
Ambulance South Central
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Oxfordshire
51°46′N1°12′W / 51.76°N 1.20°W / 51.76; -1.20

Headington Quarry is a residential district of Oxford, England, located east of Headington and west of Risinghurst, just inside the Oxford ring road in the east of the city. To the south is Wood Farm. Today the district is also known colloquially as "Quarry". [1] The area, now residential, is considerably uneven due to previous quarrying in the area.

Contents

Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry. Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry - geograph.org.uk - 673061.jpg
Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry.

The Church of England parish church of the Holy Trinity [2] [3] was designed by George Gilbert Scott and built in 1848–49. [4] The east window of its chancel was designed by Ninian Comper. [4] The Friends of Holy Trinity Church was founded in 2002 to raise funds and look after the church. [5] In 1930, C. S. Lewis, Oxford academic and author of The Chronicles of Narnia , and his brother Warnie moved, with Janie Moore and her daughter Maureen, into "The Kilns", a house on the outskirts of Headington Quarry. [6] Lewis attended Holy Trinity Church. [7] He first preached there on 29 March 1942, on the subject of "Religion and pleasure", and he is buried in the churchyard.

There is a former Methodist Chapel in Quarry High Street. [8] The Headington Quarry Morris Dancers are based in the area. [9] Headington Quarry Morris Dancers were the first Morris dancers ever seen by Cecil Sharp, on Boxing Day 1899. [10] This chance meeting was one of the events that sparked a lifelong interest in folk dance, song and music, to which Sharp devoted much of his life.

Headington Quarry was designated a conservation area [11] in 1971, and the Friends of Quarry [12] is a residents' association which aims to preserve the distinctive character of the Conservation Area and its immediate neighbourhood.

Other features

Geographically central to the Quarry, the original school, variously named Headington Quarry National School, Headington Quarry Church of England Junior Mixed School, and Headington Quarry Church of England First School, was closed in 2003 due to a lack of enrolments. [13] The school building was originally built in 1864. The school is now home to the Headington Quarry Foundation Stage School. The school building is conservation listed. [14]

Headington Quarry is noted for its array of narrow, winding roads and alleyways; for the undulating terrain on which houses have been built as a result of the quarrying that took place; and for the significant amount of greenspace in the area.

The wartime Bletchley Park cryptoanalyst Joan Clarke (1917–1996), colleague and briefly fiancée of Alan Turing, lived at 7 Larksfield in Headington Quarry, from 1991 until her death. On 27 July 2019, a blue plaque was unveiled at her former home to commemorate her. [15]

Headington stone

Headington Quarry had a number of stone quarries. [16] Headington stone, a style of limestone, was traditionally used for some Oxford University college buildings, although it was prone to erosion by pollution. [17] In 1396, stone from Headington was used to build the bell-tower for New College. Headington stone was also used for the foundations and walls of All Souls College in the first half of the fifteenth century, [18] and then in the 1520s by Cardinal Wolsey to build his Cardinal College (now Christ Church).

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William Butterfield</span> British architect

William Butterfield was a British Gothic Revival architect and associated with the Oxford Movement. He is noted for his use of polychromy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thame</span> Human settlement in England

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Adderbury</span> Human settlement in England

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arthur Blomfield</span> English architect (1829–1899)

Sir Arthur William Blomfield was an English architect. He became president of the Architectural Association in 1861; a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1867 and vice-president of the RIBA in 1886. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied Architecture.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Headington</span> Suburb of Oxford, England

Headington is an eastern suburb of Oxford, England. It is at the top of Headington Hill overlooking the city in the Thames valley below, and bordering Marston to the north-west, Cowley to the south, and Barton and Risinghurst to the east. The life of the large residential area is centred upon London Road, the main road between London and Oxford.

Risinghurst is an outlying residential area of Oxford, England, just outside the Eastern Bypass Road which forms part of the Oxford ring road. It is about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the centre of Headington and 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Oxford city centre. It is part of the Risinghurst and Sandhills civil parish and is typical of housing estates built between the wars to house an increasingly prosperous working class who were moving into new urban centres—in this instance to take advantage of the burgeoning motor industry in Oxford.

Wheatley is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about 5 miles (8 km) east of Oxford. The parish includes the hamlet of Littleworth, which is immediately to the west of Wheatley village. The 2011 census recorded the parish population as 3,913.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">New Marston</span> Human settlement in England

New Marston is a suburb about 1.25 miles (2 km) northeast of the centre of Oxford, England.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Broad Street, Oxford</span> Street in central Oxford, England

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Horspath</span> Human settlement in England

Horspath is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire about 3+1⁄2 miles (5.6 km) east of the centre of Oxford, England. The 2011 census recorded the parish's population as 1,378.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shipton-on-Cherwell</span> Human settlement in England

Shipton-on-Cherwell is a village on the River Cherwell about 2 miles (3 km) north of Kidlington in Oxfordshire, England. The village is part of the civil parish of Shipton-on-Cherwell and Thrupp.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shenington</span> Human settlement in England

Shenington is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Shenington with Alkerton, in the Cherwell district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. It is about 5 miles (8 km) west of Banbury, it was an exclave of Gloucestershire until the Counties Act 1844 transferred it to Oxfordshire. Shenington is on Oxfordshire's boundary with Warwickshire. Shenington was an ancient parish of 1,628 acres (659 ha). In 1961 the parish had a population of 232. On 1 April 1970 the parish was abolished and merged with Alkerton to form "Shenington with Alkerton".

Henry Jones Underwood (1804–1852) was an English architect who spent most of his career in Oxford. He was the brother of the architects Charles Underwood and George Allen Underwood.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charles Buckeridge</span> British architect (c. 1832–1873)

Charles Buckeridge was a British Gothic Revival architect who trained as a pupil of Sir George Gilbert Scott. He practised in Oxford 1856–68 and in London from 1869. He was made an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1861.

Clapton Crabb Rolfe was an English Gothic Revival architect whose practice was based in Oxford.

Joseph Clarke (1819–1888) was a British Gothic Revival architect who practised in London, England.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William Wilkinson (architect)</span> British architect (1819–1901)

William Wilkinson (1819–1901) was a British Gothic Revival architect who practised in Oxford, England.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry</span> Church in Oxfordshire, England

Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry, is located in the district of Headington Quarry, Oxford, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Oxford.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thomas Rayson</span>

Thomas Rayson was an architect who practised in Oxford, England, and also a watercolourist.

References

  1. ↑ Headington Quarry, Oxford City Council.
  2. ↑ Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry
  3. ↑ SP5506: Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry, Geograph
  4. 1 2 Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 337
  5. ↑ About Us Archived 10 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine , Friends of Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry.
  6. ↑ Headington History: The Kilns, Lewis Close, Risinghurst
  7. ↑ Headington History: C.S. Lewis and Headington
  8. ↑ Headington History: Former Methodist Chapel, Quarry High Street, Headington
  9. ↑ The Headington Quarry Morris Dancers
  10. ↑ Oxfordshire Blue Plaques: William Kimber
  11. ↑ More information about the Headington Quarry Conservation Area on city council website
  12. ↑ Friends of Quarry website
  13. ↑ Stephanie Jenkins. "Headington Quarry School" . Retrieved 20 November 2013.
  14. ↑ "Headington Quarry Conservation Appraisal" (PDF). Oxford City Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 November 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
  15. ↑ "Joan Murray, née Clarke (1917–1996) Cryptanalyst and numismatist – 7 Larkfields, Headington Quarry, Oxford". UK: Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board . Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  16. ↑ "Headington History: The Stone Quarries of Headington". Archived from the original on 10 July 2009. Retrieved 3 September 2009.
  17. ↑ Viles, Heather. "Crumbling facades: Past, present and future threats to Oxford's stonework" (PDF). University of Oxford . Retrieved 4 April 2010.
  18. ↑ Building accounts of All Souls College Oxford, 1438-1443. Walker, Simon., Munby, Julian. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press. 2010. ISBN   978-0-904107-23-4. OCLC   620330493.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

Sources

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.