Medieval History
East Oxford residents are reviving their campaign against plans to build student accommodation near a medieval leper hospital.
Oxford University?s Oriel College says it will appeal over a scheme to create 31 rooms for graduate students, on the site of a former nursery school in the Bartlemas conservation area, off Cowley Road.
Last year a planning inspector rejected the college?s plans for a three-storey building, on the grounds that it infringed on the site of a farmhouse, one of three historic buildings on the site.
Click here to read this article from the Oxford Mail
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Thirty-seven skeletons found in a mass burial site in the grounds of St John?s College in Oxford may not be who they initially seemed, according to Oxford University researchers studying the remains. When the bodies were discovered in the grounds of...
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- Archaeological Project To Look For Medieval And Ancient Remains In Oxford
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Medieval History
East Oxford residents fight new plan to build on leper hospital site
East Oxford residents are reviving their campaign against plans to build student accommodation near a medieval leper hospital.
Oxford University?s Oriel College says it will appeal over a scheme to create 31 rooms for graduate students, on the site of a former nursery school in the Bartlemas conservation area, off Cowley Road.
Last year a planning inspector rejected the college?s plans for a three-storey building, on the grounds that it infringed on the site of a farmhouse, one of three historic buildings on the site.
Click here to read this article from the Oxford Mail
- Medieval Jewish Cemetery Discovered In Oxford, England
According to a BBC report , a Jewish cemetery from the Medieval Period has been unearthed under the Rose Garden, near the Oxford Botanic Garden by historian Pam Manix, who made the discovery while researching the archives of Magdalen College in Oxford....
- Skeletons Found At Mass Burial Site In Oxford Could Be ?10th-century Viking Raiders?
Thirty-seven skeletons found in a mass burial site in the grounds of St John?s College in Oxford may not be who they initially seemed, according to Oxford University researchers studying the remains. When the bodies were discovered in the grounds of...
- Oxford Viking Massacre Revealed By Skeleton Find
Evidence of a brutal massacre of Vikings in Oxford 1100 years ago has been uncovered by archaeologists. At least 35 skeletons, all males aged 16 to 25 were discovered in 2008 at St John's College, Oxford. Analysis of wound marks on the bones now suggests...
- Anglo-saxon Leper Hospital Discovered In Winchester
The University of Winchester?s archaeological excavations at St Mary Magdalen, on the outskirts of Winchester, have revealed evidence for what may be Britain?s earliest known hospital. Recent radio carbon analysis at the former Leper Hospital has provided...
- Archaeological Project To Look For Medieval And Ancient Remains In Oxford
A major new archaeology project, starting in early October 2010, will uncover the rich history of the eastern districts of Oxford City. The wide-ranging project has been made possible by a £330,700 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and a grant...