Alice in Wonderland lantern - The Covered Market, Oxford

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Alice in Wonderland lantern - The Covered Market, Oxford
Alice in Wonderland lantern - The Covered Market, Oxford

The Covered Market is on Market Street in Oxford. Just a quick look inside, saw these lantern sculptures hanging up inside lit up at the time of the visit.


Grade II listed building

The Covered Market

Details
SP 5106 SW OXFORD HIGH STREET

612/8/10064 The Covered Market

GV II

Market. Rebuilt and enlarged 1834-40 by Thomas Wyatt the younger; 1842-4 and 1845-9 by H.J. Underwood; 18853-5; 1875 by H.J. Tollit; 1881 by Codd and Gardiner; 1886-7 by E.G. Bruton; 1888, 1892-3 and 1898. Ashlar and timber; iron and timber roofs clad in slates. PLAN: Four N-S aisles, crossed by transverse aisles in grid pattern with ranges of shops, all covered by iron and timber roofs. EXTERIOR: Market Street elevation. Three gabled bays to right [W] with ball finials, Venetian windows on first floor; and on ground floor blind arcade with imposts and keystones on left and centre and pilastered carriageway on right with small cartouche above; on left [E] hipped roof canopies cantilevered out over glazed timber and open ends to aisles, and large louvred hipped roof ventilator. INTERIOR; The aisles have arch-braced king-post timber trusses with struts, and cast-iron roofs with clerestorey and tie-rods, tie-beams inscribed Dewer London 1839. Shops with pilastered fronts and clerestorey above. NOTE: The Covered Market was begun in 1772-4 to the designs of John Gwynn, but all that remains of this work is the front range to the south facing High Street, Nos.10-15, which is listed [8/310]. The existing covered market behind [N] is a C19 reconstruction. SOURCES: [1] Graham, M. The Building of Oxford Covered Market, Oxoniensia vol.XLIV, 1976. [2] Hibbert, C. Encyclopaedia of Oxford, pp.109-110.

Listing NGR: SP5140406269


Alice in Wonderland lantern

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