 View of houses south from the junction with Southmoor Place | |
| Postal code | OX2 |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 51°45′50″N1°16′13″W / 51.76396°N 1.27019°W |
| North end | Kingston Road |
| Major junctions | Southmoor Place |
| South end | Longworth Road Walton Well Road |
| Construction | |
| Construction start | 1883 |
| Completion | 1895 |
| Other | |
| Designer | Wilkinson & Moore Harry Wilkinson Moore J. C. Gray |
| Known for | Blue plaque for Chiang Yee |
Southmoor Road is a residential road in Walton Manor, north Oxford, England. [1]
The road runs north–south, with a turn to the east to join Kingston Road, which runs parallel to the east, at its northern end. At the southern end, there is a junction with Longworth Road and Walton Well Road. Halfway along is a junction with Southmoor Place to the east, also linking it with Kingston Road. To the west is the Oxford Canal. To the south is the district of Jericho. The houses have been described as "large small house(s)" as opposed to the "small large house(s)" in the Chalfont Road area to the northeast. [2]
Houses in the road were originally leased between 1883 and 1895 as part of the North Oxford estate of St John's College. [1] The houses were mainly designed by the architectural partnership of Wilkinson & Moore, with some by Harry Wilkinson Moore and J. C. Gray.
At the southern end of Southmoor Road, at the junction with Longworth Road and Walton Well Road, a drinking fountain was installed in 1885 on the site of a water spring. [3] It was erected by William Ward, who was earlier Mayor of Oxford for the years 1851 and 1861. [4] The fountain was designed by Harry Wilkinson Moore, architect of many of the houses in Southmoor Road, and carved in Portland stone by McCulloch of London. [5]
The road includes a blue plaque, unveiled on 29 June 2019, for the Chinese artist and writer Chiang Yee (1903–1977) at 28 Southmoor Road, where he lived during 1940–1955. [6] Here he worked on the illustrated book The Silent Traveller in Oxford , first published by Methuen in 1944.
In previous times, the road has been relatively down-market, but it is now a desirable area. [2] Residents in the road celebrated its centenary with a street party on 22 June 1986. [7]
Chiang Yee, self-styled as "The Silent Traveller" (哑行者), was a Chinese poet, author, painter and calligrapher. The success of The Silent Traveller: A Chinese Artist in Lakeland (1937) was followed by a series of books in the same vein, all of which he illustrated himself. He was a nominee for the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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