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Hace 2 días · Town Hall, St Aldate's. There are two tiers of local government covering Oxford, at district and county level: Oxford City Council and Oxfordshire County Council. From 1889 to 1974 the city of Oxford was a county borough, independent from the county council.
Hace 4 días · Carfax, looking west from the High Street towards Carfax Tower and Queen Street. St Aldate’s Street is on the left and Cornmarket on the right. For more information on the medieval church tower that survives at Carfax, its quarter boys, and the gateway to the right with the statue of St Martin, see this detailed page about St Martin's Church.
Hace 3 días · St. Michael at the Southgate, united with St. Aldate's in 1524, St. Thomas's, and St. Giles's parishes covered a large area around Oxford, bounded on the east by the Cherwell, on the west and south by streams of the Thames, and on the north by field boundaries and, for a short distance, the Woodstock road.
Hace 4 días · Pembroke College Arms. Architectural Description—The Main Quadrangle (100 ft. by 62 ft. average) is entered by the Gatehouse in the N. Range. This range, of two storeys with attics and built in 1673–94, was entirely refaced and remodelled in 1829–30. The gatehouse was formerly a structure of Renaissance character and of three stages; it ...
Hace 5 días · St. Aldate's, Oxford, obtained from the Crown in 1636; sold 1858. West Haroldston, with Lambton, Pembrokeshire, obtained from Sir John Phillips in 1749, taken over by Welsh Church Commissioners in 1922. Coln St. Denys, Gloucestershire, bought from the Phipps bequest, which came to the college in 1778; see Bury, supra.
Hace 4 días · Mayor of Oxford 1782/3, 1796/7 and 1809/10. William Fletcher was born in Turl Street, Oxford on 28 September 1739. He was the seventh child of James Fletcher, a bookseller of the University of Oxford, and his wife Mary. These are likely to be the James Fletcher and Mary King who were married at St Cross (Holywell) Church on 3 January 1729/30.
Hace 4 días · Carfax is the meeting of the four streets that run into the city from the sites of the former east, south, west and north gates, i.e. High Street, St Aldate's (formerly Fish Street), Queen Street (formerly Great Bailey) and Cornmarket (formerly Northgate Street).
