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Norham Gardens

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Norham Gardens is a residential road in central North Oxford, England. It adjoins the north end of Parks Road near the junction with Banbury Road, directly opposite St Anne's College. From here it skirts the north side of the Oxford University Parks, ending up at Lady Margaret Hall, a college of Oxford University that was formerly for women only, backing onto the River Cherwell. Public access to the Parks is available from the two ends of the road. To the north of the road are Bradmore Road near the western end and Fyfield Road near the eastern end.

A number of houses in Norham Gardens are now used by the University of Oxford (mainly the Department of Education) and its colleges. St Edmund Hall's Graduate Centre is housed in several buildings on this road. One house, previously run by the Society of the Sacred Heart and then St Benet's Hall, is now accommodation and teaching space for St Hilda's College.{{cite news |title=The History of Norham Gardens |url=https://www.st-benets.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/stb_news_december_2016.pdf |access-date=21 February 2023 |work=St Benet’s News |pages=4–5 |issue=December 2016 |publisher=St Benet's Hall}}{{cite news |last1=Kenny |first1=Samuel |title=St Hilda's buys St Benet's Hall's buildings |url=https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2022/09/28/st-hildas-buys-st-benets-halls-buildings/ |access-date=21 February 2023 |work=The Oxford Student |date=28 September 2022}}

History

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Norham Gardens was developed from 1860 onwards as part of the Norham Manor housing estate.Tyack, 1998, pages 234-235.Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 317. Most of its houses are large Victorian Gothic villas. Nos. 1, 5, 7, 11 and 13 were designed by the architect William Wilkinson and nos. 3 and 9 are by Charles Buckeridge.Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 318. The Sanskrit scholar, Max Müller lived at No. 7 from 1848 until his death in 1900.{{cite web | url = http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/max-muller | title = Max Muller | access-date= 19 December 2014}} When he was Regius Professor of Medicine (1905–1919), Sir William Osler lived at No. 13 with his wife, Grace, who remained there until her death in 1928. Osler and his friends nicknamed the house "The Open Arms" as the Oslers were very sociable, particularly to Canadians and Americans visiting Oxford, Osler having been born in Canada and having worked in both Canada and the US before moving to Oxford. The Deneke family, including the sisters Helena Deneke (1878–1973), a bursar and German tutor at Lady Margaret Hall and the pianist Margaret Deneke (1882–1969), lived at No. 19, Gunfield.{{cite web| url=https://victorianweb.org/art/architecture/homes/36.html | title=Gunfield, 19 Norham Gardens | work=The Victorian Web | access-date=25 August 2024 }} They held musical soirees at Gunfield,{{cite news| title=Miss H. C. Deneke | newspaper=The Times | date=1 October 1973 }} with guests including Albert Einstein{{cite book| first=Andrew | last=Robinson | title=Einstein in Oxford | date=2024 | publisher=Bodleian Library Publishing | isbn=978-1-85124-638-0 | pages=44–50 }} and Albert Schweitzer.{{cite book| first=Mavis | last=Curtis | title=The WI: A Centenary History | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KEdpCAAAQBAJ&pg=PP78 | date=2015 | publisher=Amberley Publishing | isbn=978-1-4456-1704-6 | pages=78–79 }}

Literature

The children's fantasy novel The House in Norham Gardens (set in a fictional No. 40) was written by Penelope Lively and published in 1970.Penelope Lively, [https://books.google.com/books?id=HVnMAAAACAAJ The House in Norham Gardens]. Heinemann/Dutton, 1974. {{ISBN|978-0-434-94895-6}}; {{ISBN|978-0-525-32315-0}}. Also published by Mammoth, 1994. {{ISBN|978-0-7497-0790-3}}.

See also

References

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Sources

  • {{Cite book |author=Hinchcliffe, Tanis |title=North Oxford |year=1992 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=0-300-05184-0 }}
  • {{Cite book |author=Lively, Penelope |author-link=Penelope Lively |title=The House in Norham Gardens |year=2004 |publisher=Jane Nissen Books |isbn=1-903252-18-0 }}
  • {{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 |page=317}}
  • {{Cite book |author=Tyack, Geoffrey |title=Oxford An Architectural Guide |year=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford & New York |isbn=0-19-817423-3 |pages=234–235}}

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