Oxford boundary markers: St Clement’s Street (1858?)
This reddish stone is stuck behind a lamp-post near the bus-stop outside 78 St Clement’s Street, near the junction with Morrell Avenue (in front of the boundary wall separating Canteloup House from the new building on the right: map)
It is impossible to photograph it from the front because of the lamppost. The photograph on the left shows the left-hand side of the stone, and the one on the right the right-hand side.
It appears to be inscribed CSJD (which presumably stands for Cowley St John District) and probably the year 1858.
Not a listed structure
This stone marks the boundary between the ancient parish of St Clement’s and the new ecclesiastical district of Cowley St John (formerly a far-flung part of the parish of St James's Church in Cowley). This was formed in 1858 out of parts of Cowley, Iffley, and St Clement's.
The first church of this new ecclesiastical district was the iron church in Stockmore Street built in 1859. The foundation stone of the present parish church of Ss Mary & John on the Cowley Road was laid in October 1875, but as it was built in instalments it was not consecrated until 6 November 1883.
The parish of St Clement's had been taken into the City of Oxford in 1835, but the new parish of Cowley St John continued to remain outside the city until 1889.