Radcliffe Infirmary

The Radcliffe Infirmary was a hospital in central north Oxford, England, located at the southern end of Woodstock Road on the western side, backing onto Walton Street.

[1] A fountain of the Greek god Triton was placed in front of the main infirmary building in 1858[2] and the Oxford Eye Hospital was established on the site in 1886.

[4] In 1936 the Radcliffe Infirmary treated four members of the British Union of Fascists following the Battle of Carfax.

Penicillin was first tested on patients on 27 January 1941[6] and the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology was founded on the site in 1942.

[8] After services had been transferred to purpose-built buildings at the John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals in nearby Headington, the infirmary closed for medical use in 2007.