In pictures: Purcell OK'd for Oxford college makeover

By Jordan Marshall2019-06-14T05:00:00

Source: Purcell

Grade II-listed building was finished in 1970

Oxford city council has approved plans by heritage specialist Purcell to revamp a grade II-listed building at Oxford university’s St Anthony’s College.

The Hilda Besse building was completed in 1970 by John Partridge who worked for post-war architecture practice HKPA. It is the first time the building, which won an RIBA and Concrete Society award a year after it opened, will have been given a large-scale revamp.

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