53–54 Cornmarket
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The right-hand side of the present Barclays Bank was built in the 1860s, and the left-hand side was built to match in 1922, when the bank expanded.
In the nineteenth century the shop at No. 54 was run by wine merchants, who were subject to university wine licences. The Clarendon Club met here from 1882.
No. 53 was one of Francis Twining’s grocer’s shop until the bank expanded in 1921.
In the censuses
1841
William Badcock (25) and George Badcock (20), both wine merchants, are living here with an independent person Thomas Badcock (50) and Sarah (50) and Ann, plus an independent lady with three young children, and three female servants.
1851
No. 53: The unmarried wine merchant Christopher Park (29) is living here with his brother William Park (22) and his sisters Caroline (27) and Mary (25). Also living over the shop is an assistant, a barmaid, and a female general servant.
No. 54: The unmarried china & glass dealer Martha Ashley (26) is living over her shop with one female servant.
1861
No. 54: As two wine merchant brothers from 1861 now comprise two households, one of them may be living over No. 53. One is comprised of Christopher Park (3) and his wife Julia 38) and children Ada (6), Edith (5), and Charles (3) plus a female servant; the other is William Park (31) and his wife Louisa (29) and daughter Charlotte (4). Also living with them is a barmaid, and they have one servant.
1881
No. 53: The tobacconist Joseph T. Higgins (27) and his wife Kate (2) are listed here, presumably living over Gillett & Co’s bank.
No. 54: The confectioner William Seary (29) is living over the shop with his brother Philip (24), also a confectioner. They have one female general servant, and they have a surgeon, Thomas F. Tyerman, lodging with them.
Occupants of 53 and 54 Cornmarket listed in directories etc. |
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Date |
No. 54 (left) | No. 53 (right) |
1839 |
T. Badcock |
No listing |
1846 |
Nicholas Trafford |
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1851–2 |
Christopher Park |
Martha Ashley |
1867 |
No listing: probably being rebuilt |
T. & C. Wyatt |
1872 |
University Lodgings & Turkish baths George Bartram |
F. O. Thompson |
1880 |
Gillett & Co., Bankers Oxford County Court |
Joseph Higgins |
1890 |
Gillett & Co., Bankers District Registry of High Court of Justice County Court Office The Clarendon Club South of England Telephone Co. |
Francis Twining |
1901–1911 |
Gillett & Co., Bankers + The Clarendon Club |
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1921 |
Barclays Bank Ltd +The Clarendon Club |
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1922 |
No. 53 on the right rebuilt to match the 1860s building at No. 54 on the left |
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1923– |
Barclays Bank (with Clarendon Club upstairs until 1967) |
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Old pictures on other websites and in books
For a photograph and a drawing showing Twining’s old shop at No. 53, squeezed between the Clarendon Hotel on the right and Phase 1 of the present bank on the left, see Michael L. Turner and David Vaisey, Oxford Shops and Shopping, p. 8, illustrations 10 and 11.