The Manor Ground development,
6 March 2005
Above: Main entrance to the Manor Hospital, Beech Road, Headington
Right: Foundation stone of the Hospital, laid by Douglas Gardner, Chairman of the Board of Governors of Nuffield Hospitals, on 16 September 2003
Below: Close-up of the sculpture visible in the above picture
A condition of the planning permission granted to Nuffield Hospitals was that they should commission a public work of art costing at least £10,000 to commemorate the site's heritage. The above 25ft-wide sculpture facing Beech Road, unveiled in December 2004, is the result. Called United, it is by Diana Bell, the same sculptor who did the work in Bury Knowle near the library
The Manor is a private hospital replacing the old Acland in Oxford (whose site has been purchased by Keble College). It has 71 en-suite patient rooms; a seven-bedded intensive care unit; 6 operating theatres; a cardiac catheter laboratory; 2 endoscopy / minor operations suites; a dedicated oncology department for in- and out-patient oncology; and on-site MRI and CT scanning.
Left: Some of the sixty expensive flats at the Cuckoo Lane end of the development, with their controversial metal balconies
Below: Horwood Close looks down on the site destined for the 27 affordable flats, which have not yet been built (see original plan)
