St Michael's Street is a street in central Oxford, England.[1][2] It runs between New Inn Hall Street to the west and Cornmarket to the east, with Ship Street almost opposite.
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Northgate Hall is located here. Also to be found off the street is the debating chamber of the Oxford Union, a leading student society in the University of Oxford. Vanbrugh House at No. 20 is of particular architectural note as being "almost a parody of Blenheim" according to Pevsner.[1]
There is a blue plaque, installed on 2 July 2002 by the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board, for the prison reformer Felicia Skene (1821–1899), located at 34 St Michael's Street.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Penguin Books. pp. 273, 299, 301, 323. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
- ^ Tyack, Geoffrey (1998). Oxford: An architectural guide. Oxford University Press. pp. 126, 145, 220, 245. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
- ^ "Felicia Skene (1821–1899)". UK: Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
External links
edit- 10 St Michael's Street, a 16th-century Tudor house