Nos. 24–29: Department of Statistics
The building shown above, was built in the mid-1960s as a Mathematical Institute for the University of Oxford, replacing the six old houses numbered 24–29 St Giles’ Street (planning application 64/10139/A_H). It lies in St Giles' parish.
That Institute has now moved to the Radcliffe Infirmary site, and this building is now the University's Department of Statistics.
Former buildings on this site (demolished and rebuilt in the 1860s)
No. 24 was the Windmill Inn until the 1860s. Windmill Yard was between the Windmill at No. 24 and No. 25, and Adams Yard (presumably named after Robert Adams the butcher at No. 25, and probably the former Boot Alley) was between Nos. 25 and 26.
An advertisement in Jackson's Oxford Journal on 26 August 1837 for an auction of Nos. 25 & 26 described them thus: “TWO DWELLING HOUSES, front St. Giles’s street, with yard, slaughter-house, and other convenient outbuildings, now in the occupation of Mrs. Kitchen, and Mr. Adams, butcher.
Nos. 24, 25, and 26 were demolished for the first time in the early 1860s and rebuilt as three much larger four-storey premises with extra accommodation in the roof.
In 1868 Balliol College rented the rebuilt No. 26, renaming it Balliol Hall, to enable students of ability with limited means to study at the college. In 1877 the Dragon School (then called the Oxford Preparatory School) started life in two rooms at the rebuilt No. 26, moving to 17 Crick Road in 1879 and thence to Bardwell Road in 1895.
The Marlborough Secretarial College began life at the rebuilt No. 24 in about 1940.
Left The six houses demolished to make way for the Mathematical Institute can be seen in the centre of this photograph (taken in about 1920). They are sandwiched between two existing buildings, namely Nos. 22/23 (in the right foreground, with three gables) and No. 30 (on the left on the corner Keble Road, with two gables) .
Nos. 24, 25, and 26 comprised the very large 1860s building set back from the road.
The much lower shop beyond this is No. 27, while the three-storey building to the north again comprised Nos. 28 and 29.
Photograph taken in 1949 of the buildings demolished to make way for the Mathematical Institute
No. 24 (right) |
No. 25 (middle) |
No. 26 (left) |
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1837 | Windmill Inn |
Robert Adams |
Mrs Kitchen |
1841–1852 |
William Tarrant junior |
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1861 |
James Walton |
Richard Carter |
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Rebuilt in early 1860s |
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1866 |
Mr Morrison |
James West |
Rev. T. Arnold, M.A. |
1867 |
H.B. Spencer, M.D. |
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1869 |
Mrs Maskell |
Balliol Hall: Mrs F.W. Jenkins |
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1871–1875 |
Rev. Joseph |
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1876 |
S.W. Taylor |
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1880–1884 |
Misses Fruin Miss Mary Fruin |
Brentford House: |
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1895–1899 |
Lodging House |
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1900–1908 |
William Simmonds |
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1909–18 |
Albert Charles Rolls |
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1919 |
Alexander John Cameron |
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1921–1923 |
Mrs Massey |
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1925–1927 |
Miss Mullett |
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1928 |
Mrs (Kil)kelly |
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1932 |
Mrs A. Smith |
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1934–7 |
Mrs Blanchard |
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1939 |
Arthur H. Hickling |
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1941 |
Marlborough Secretarial |
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1945 |
Miss E. A. Coombs |
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1947 |
Miss D. Hickling |
Alexander B.F. Gibson |
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1949–54 |
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1956 |
Boris Weber |
No listing |
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1958–60 |
Frederick Halcrow |
Randolph Hotel |
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1962 |
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1964 |
Adrian Davies |
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Demolished to make way for Mathematical Institute Now the University of Oxford Department of Statistics |
The low building in the middle (No. 27) was for many years a shop:
No. 27 |
No. 28 |
No. 29 |
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1841 |
Joseph Carter |
George Parrott |
Esther Masham |
1846 |
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1852 |
Thomas
Grimsley |
Henry
Emerton |
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1861 |
Henry Jacob |
Charles Richards |
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1866–1869 |
William Morley |
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1871 |
Frederick Grimbley |
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1872 |
Benjamin Hart |
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1880–4 | Mrs Martin |
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1887–1904 |
Thomas Howard |
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1906–8 |
Percy Halfacree Bootmaker |
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1910 |
William John
Potter |
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1911 |
Ernest Henry
Brownjohn |
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1912–1914 |
Henry J. Potter |
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1915–1916 |
Edward Dowse |
Herbert James
Potter |
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1918 |
Miss Dorothy
Humphrey |
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1919–1923 |
Colin Harse |
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1925–6 | Madame Derwent |
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1927 | Campbell & Garrick |
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1929–1939 |
Mrs M.A. Dorrill |
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1941–1945 | A.J. Luce |
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1947 |
Levy &
Freeman |
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1949–1958 |
Swift School of Motoring |
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1960 |
William Holmes,
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David Longrigg |
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1962 |
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1964 |
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Leonardo Castillejo, M.A. |
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Demolished to make way for Mathematical Institute |