Keble Road

{{Short description|Road in central Oxford, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}} {{Use British English|date=December 2017}} thumb|Looking east along Keble Road {{Location map |Oxford (central) |label= |position= |label_size= |mark=Blue pog.svg |marksize=12 |lat=51.7594 |long=-1.2588 |float=right |width=240 |caption=Location of Keble Road within central Oxford }}

'''Keble Road''' is a short road running east–west in central Oxford, England.<ref name="pevsner">{{cite book |title=The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire |last1=Sherwood |first1=Jennifer |last2=Pevsner |first2=Nikolaus |authorlink2=Nikolaus Pevsner |year=1974 |publisher=Penguin Books | pages=227, 270, 271 |isbn=0-14-071045-0}}</ref> To the west is the southern end of the Banbury Road with St Giles' Church opposite. To the east is Parks Road with the University Parks opposite. Blackhall Road leads off the road to the south near the western end.

On the south side for much of its length is the Victorian brick Keble College, and in particular, its large chapel on the corner with Parks Road. Opposite this to the north is a row of Victorian terrace houses owned by the University of Oxford. The houses nearest Parks Road (numbers 6–11) were converted into the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (OUCL), now the Department of Computer Science, with its newer Wolfson Building added behind in 1993, and the Oxford e-Science Building in 2006 (both in Parks Road).

Oxford University's 1960s Denys Wilkinson Building (Particle physics, John Adams Institute and astrophysics) is in Keble Road, on the corner with Banbury Road. The Department of Theoretical Physics is at 1 Keble Road. The Oxford e-Research Centre ([https://oerc.ox.ac.uk/ OeRC]) is at 7 Keble Road.

The area to the north of Keble Road, bounded by Banbury Road and Parks Road, is known as the '''Keble Road Triangle'''<ref name="tyack">{{cite book |title=Oxford: An architectural guide|author=Tyack, Geoffrey |year=1998|publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=319–320 | isbn=0-14-071045-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.oxford-guide.arollo.com/glossary.html | title=Oxford glossary | website=www.oxford-guide.arollo.com | publisher=Oxford Guide | access-date=1 October 2007 | archive-date=3 March 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303203547/http://www.oxford-guide.arollo.com/glossary.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> and forms part of Oxford University's Science Area, with a number of its science department buildings located here.

thumb|120px|left|James Legge blue plaque A blue plaque commemorating James Legge (1815–1897), Sinologist and translator, first Professor of Chinese at Oxford, was unveiled at 3 Keble Road, on 16 May 2018.<ref>{{cite news| title=Blue plaque unveiled in Keble Terrace for Chinese professor James Legge | newspaper=Oxford Mail | date=19 May 2018 | url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/16237161.blue-plaque-unveiled-keble-terrace-chinese-professor-james-legge/ | location=UK }}</ref> William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), Warden of New College and famed for "Spoonerisms", lived at 11 Keble Road,<ref>{{cite journal| url=https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/anthro/documents/media/jaso1_3_1970_103_109.pdf | title=Social Anthropology at Oxford | journal=Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford | volume=1 | issue=3 | date=1970 | publisher=School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford | location=UK | format=pdf | page=104 | accessdate=12 January 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal| url=https://jashm.press.uillinois.edu/10.4/10-4EBTylor_Lienhardt181-186.pdf | title=EDWARD TYLOR (1832–1917) | first=Godfrey | last=Lienhardt | work=Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement | volume=10 | issue=4 | date=Autumn 1999 | page=186 | publisher=University of Illinois | format=pdf | accessdate=12 January 2024 }}</ref> now part of the Department of Computer Science at Oxford, and an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque commemorating him was unveiled on 19 October 2024.<ref>https://www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/spooner.html</ref>

==Gallery== <gallery> Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Keble Road - DSC02780.jpg|Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, on the north side of Keble Road Keble College Chapel from Parks Road 2.jpg|Keble College Chapel on the south side of Keble Road, viewed from Parks Road Denys Wilkinson Building, University of Oxford - Banbury Road.jpg|The Denys Wilkinson Building on the corner of the western end of Keble Road at the junction with Banbury Road </gallery>

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==External links== {{commons category}} Sub-departments of the [http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/ Department of Physics] of the University of Oxford, located on Keble Road: *[http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/pp/ Particle physics] *[http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/ Astrophysics] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20050405005416/http://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/theory Theoretical physics]

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