Headington Quarry
{{Short description|Village in Oxford, England}}
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Headington Quarry is a suburb and civil parish of Oxford, England. Once a separate village built on the site of a former limestone quarry, it is now fully integrated into the city of Oxford and lies approximately 3 miles east of the city centre, just inside the Oxford Ring Road. It is near to Headington, Wood Farm, Risinghurst, and Barton.
Today it is known colloquially as "Quarry".[http://www.oxford.gov.uk/planning/conservation-headington-quarry.cfm Headington Quarry] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091102133649/http://www.oxford.gov.uk/planning/conservation-headington-quarry.cfm |date=2 November 2009 }}, Oxford City Council. and is now considerably uneven due to previous quarrying in the area.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}
The Headington Quarry Morris Dancers are based in the area.[http://hqmd.tripod.com/ The Headington Quarry Morris Dancers] Headington Quarry Morris Dancers were the first Morris dancers ever seen by Cecil Sharp, on Boxing Day 1899.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110808082820/http://www.oxfordshireblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/kimber.html Oxfordshire Blue Plaques: William Kimber]}} This chance meeting was one of the events that sparked a lifelong interest in folk dance, song and music, to which Sharp devoted much of his life.
Headington Quarry was designated a conservation area[http://www.oxford.gov.uk/PageRender/decP/Headington_Quarry_occw.htm More information about the Headington Quarry Conservation Area on city council website] in 1971, and the Friends of Quarry[http://friendsofquarry.org/ Friends of Quarry website] is a residents' association which aims to preserve the distinctive character of the Conservation Area and its immediate neighbourhood.
History
Headington Quarry Church of England First School, built in 1864, was closed in 2003 and was replaced by Headington Quarry Foundation Stage School. The building is now listed.{{cite web|url=http://www.headington.org.uk/history/schools/quarryschool.htm|title=Headington Quarry School|access-date=20 November 2013|author=Stephanie Jenkins}}{{cite web|url=http://www.oxford.gov.uk/Library/Documents/Planning/Headington%20Quarry%20Conservation%20Area%20Appraisal%20February%202010.pdf|title=Headington Quarry Conservation Appraisal|access-date=20 November 2013|publisher=Oxford City Council|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114133659/http://www.oxford.gov.uk/Library/Documents/Planning/Headington%20Quarry%20Conservation%20Area%20Appraisal%20February%202010.pdf|archive-date=14 November 2012|df=dmy-all}}
The wartime Bletchley Park cryptoanalyst Joan Clarke, colleague and briefly fiancée of Alan Turing, lived in Headington Quarry from 1991 until her death in 1996. In July 2019, a blue plaque was unveiled at her former home.{{cite web| url=http://www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/murray_joan.html | publisher=Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board | title=Joan Murray, née Clarke (1917–1996) Cryptanalyst and numismatist – 7 Larkfields, Headington Quarry, Oxford| location=UK | access-date=27 June 2020 }}
= Church =
Holy Trinity Church, the local parish church, was designed by George Gilbert Scott - with a window in the chancel being designed by Ninian Comper - and built in the late 1840s.Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 337 The Friends of Holy Trinity Church was founded in 2002 to raise funds and look after the church.
C. S. Lewis, Oxford academic and author of The Chronicles of Narnia, attended Holy Trinity Church and is buried in the churchyard.[http://www.headington.org.uk/history/famous_people/lewis.htm Headington History: C.S. Lewis and Headington]
There is a former Methodist Chapel in Quarry High Street.[http://www.headington.org.uk/history/buildings/quarry_methodist_chapel.htm Headington History: Former Methodist Chapel, Quarry High Street, Headington]
Headington stone
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Headington Quarry had a number of stone quarries.{{Cite web |url=http://www.headington.org.uk/history/misc/quarries.htm |title=Headington History: The Stone Quarries of Headington |access-date=3 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090710051031/http://www.headington.org.uk/history/misc/quarries.htm |archive-date=10 July 2009 |url-status=dead }} Headington stone, a style of limestone, was traditionally used for some Oxford University college buildings, although it was prone to erosion by pollution.{{cite web |last=Viles |first=Heather |url=http://www.qub.ac.uk/geomaterials/epsrc/results/Crumbling%20facades.pdf |title=Crumbling facades: Past, present and future threats to Oxford's stonework |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=4 April 2010}} In 1396, stone from Headington was used to build the bell-tower for New College. Headington stone was also used for the foundations and walls of All Souls College in the first half of the fifteenth century,{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/620330493|title=Building accounts of All Souls College Oxford, 1438-1443|date=2010|publisher=Boydell Press|others=Walker, Simon., Munby, Julian.|isbn=978-0-904107-23-4|location=Woodbridge, Suffolk|oclc=620330493}} and then in the 1520s by Cardinal Wolsey to build his Cardinal College (now Christ Church).
References
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Sources
- {{Cite book |author=Sherwood, Jennifer |author2=Pevsner, Nikolaus |author-link2=Nikolaus Pevsner |title=The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire |year=1974 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=Harmondsworth |isbn=0-14-071045-0 |pages=337}}
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