IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Quarry School Place, OXFORD, OX3 8LH
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Quarry School Place, OX3 8LH by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (156 Images Found)
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Headington Quarry, Oxford
The Mason's Arms in Quarry School Place. The largest of this village's quarries was situated behind this pub. The date above the main door indicates that it was built in 1872, although apparently its predecessor had a thatched roof. The pub, like many of the other buildings in this village are built upon undulating terrain or in hollows with the various parts of the village being connected by narrow alleyways, one of which can be seen to the right of the pub. This pitted landscape is the result of the impact of stone quarrying during the late 14th to mid-18th centuries. A substantial number of Oxford's colleges were built using Headington Stone and some colleges owned their own quarries in this part of the city.
Image: © David Hallam-Jones
Taken: 1 Aug 2013
0.01 miles
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Quarry School Place
Quarry School Place is Headington Quarry's closest thing to a village green or square.
Image: © Chris Brown
Taken: 25 Apr 2018
0.02 miles
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Headington Quarry, Oxford
Quarry School is seen here at the junction of Quarry School Place and Quarry Hollow. Many of the buildings in the village are built upon undulating terrain or in hollows. This pitted landscape is the result of the impact of stone quarrying during the late 14th to mid-18th centuries. A substantial number of Oxford's colleges were built using Headington Stone and some colleges owned their own quarries in this part of the city. The building was designed by James Brookes (1825-1901), who designed Lincoln's Inn, London and was opened in 1864. An additional schoolroom by Frederick Codd, an Oxford architect, wasn added in 1882. In 1975 it became a Foundation (or "First") level school catering for 90 children.
Image: © David Hallam-Jones
Taken: 1 Aug 2013
0.03 miles
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Headington Quarry Foundation Stage School
Built as the village school in the 1860s to a design by James Brooks, known for his muscular Gothic churches in London but born at Hatford Image in the Vale of White Horse. He also designed the Baptist church in Wantage Image
Image: © Chris Brown
Taken: 25 Apr 2018
0.03 miles
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The Chequers, Quarry Hollow
Dating in part from the eighteenth century, the pub is built of local stone which probably came from what is now the garden, landscaped out of an old quarry.
Formerly the centre of village life, home to the first school and first postbox, and HQ of the Headington Quarry morris dancers.
For much of the 19thC it was run by the suitably named Goodgame family.
The pub fell on hard times and closed in 2007, but has been reopened.
Music, Beer and Curry seem to be on the menu, which is ok by me.
Pub facts taken from this page in the Headington history site:- http://www.headington.org.uk/history/pubs/chequers.htm
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 28 Jan 2013
0.04 miles
