Norham Road
Norham Road lies east off the Banbury Road in central North Oxford, a suburb in the city of Oxford, England.[1]
Location
The road is within the Norham Manor area. It consists mainly of large Victorian houses, many of three storeys above ground with a basement below. To the south of the road are Bradmore Road near the western end and Fyfield Road near the eastern end, both connecting with Norham Gardens. To the north is Park Town. Pedestrian access at the eastern end leads north to the Dragon School, a preparatory school. The road continues to the east as Benson Place, which leads to Lady Margaret Hall, one of the Oxford University colleges, originally for women.
History
The road is part of the Norham Manor estate within North Oxford, originally owned by St John's College, Oxford. It was developed by the college in the 1870s.[1][2] The houses in the road were first leased between 1863 and 1905.[1] William Wilkinson was the architect for many of the houses (numbers 14–26 and 30–35). Frederick Codd designed No. 13.
St Hugh's College was founded as a women's college by Elizabeth Wordsworth, great-niece of the poet William Wordsworth, at 25 Norham Road in 1886, using money left to her by her father Christopher Wordsworth (1807–1885), a Bishop of Lincoln.[3] The college is now located in much larger premises on St Margaret's Road further north.
The Maison Française d'Oxford is a French research institute based at 2–10 Norham Road.[4] It was originally set up by the University of Oxford and University of Paris at the end of World War II. The current building was erected on an empty site on the north side of the road opposite Bradmore Road during 1961–2. It was designed by Jacques Laurent with Brian Ring, Howard & Partners.[2]
Brian Ring was trained in architecture in London and Paris and founded his practice in London in 1958. The practice was engaged in general commercial and residential projects throughout the UK as well as acting for the French Ministry of Education and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs on projects in the U.K.. In 1969 Ring formed a development consultancy specializing in the planning and development management of hotels, hospitals and schools, often in collaboration with the major international engineering consultants, CONSECO International, of which he was a joint founder.
Among major projects in which Ring has been involved were the planning of a major university hospital in Jordan, the planning of a burns and trauma unit in Kuwait, a major comprehensive audit of the total healthcare facilities in Mauritius and the planning and development management of a number of hotels in Spain. Before retiring from active practice in 2000, Ring was engaged in a number of commercial real estate ventures in France.
References
- 1 2 3 Tanis Hinchcliffe, North Oxford, Yale University Press, 1992. Pages 45, 85, 112, 119, 156, 191, 233–234. ISBN 0-300-05184-0.
- 1 2 Jennifer Sherwood and Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, Penguin Books, 1974, page 318–319. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
- ↑ Judy G. Batson, Her Oxford, Vanderbilt University Press, 2008. St. Hugh's: Life on a Shoestring, pages 51–56. ISBN 978-0-8265-1610-7.
- ↑ Contact us, Maison Française d’Oxford, UK.
Coordinates: 51°45′56″N 1°15′31″W / 51.7655°N 1.2586°W