Road in Oxford, England
Woodstock Road, looking south near the former
Radcliffe Infirmary .
The southern end of Woodstock Road (left)
Banbury Road (right) from the north end of
St Giles' .
St Antony's College on the Woodstock Road.
The Gatehouse (demolished 2014) of
St Anne's College , formerly the entrance to the college, on Woodstock Road.
The
Andrew Wiles Building on Woodstock Road, viewed from St Anne's College
Belsyre Court , a 1936
Grade II listed apartment block, on Woodstock Road.
Woodstock Road is a major road in
Oxford , England, running from
St Giles' in the south, north towards
Woodstock through the leafy suburb of
North Oxford .
[1] To the east is
Banbury Road , which it meets at the junction with St Giles'.
Buildings
At the southern end, just north of
Little Clarendon Street , are the
Oratory Church of St Aloysius Gonzaga and
Somerville College . Opposite Little Clarendon Street is
St Giles' Church , built in 1120 and consecrated in 1200. Further north are
Green Templeton College ,
St Anne's College and
St Antony's College . Also on Woodstock Road is
St Philip and St James Church , now the
Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS) and
St. Edward's School which is a prominent feature halfway down.
Woodstock Road Baptist Church is an
evangelical church on the corner with
Beech Croft Road .
[2]
Jack FM and
Jack 2 , local radio broadcasters covering
Oxfordshire , are based at 270 Woodstock Road, along with the local TV channel
SIX TV .
The road is classified
A4144 .
Notable residents
Former residents include:
[3]
Norman Davis ,
OBE ,
FBA (1913–89),
Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at the
University of Oxford
Sir
Hugh Elliott , OBE (1913–1989), ornithologist
Lord Redcliffe-Maud ,
GCB ,
CBE (1906–1982), civil servant, diplomat, and Master of
University College, Oxford , and
Lady Redcliffe-Maud (1904–1993), pianist
Egon Wellesz , CBE (1885–1974), composer and musicologist
Rowan Atkinson and
Richard Curtis , lived together as students
[4]
Dorothy Hodgkin , chemist, awarded a Nobel Prize for advances in protein crystallography, lived at 94 Woodstock Road from 1957 to 1968
[5]
Bill Clinton lived on Leckford Road, just off Woodstock Road, during his time as a student at Oxford.
Adjoining roads in North Oxford
See also
References
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