Randolph Hotel, Oxford

The hotel featured in the Inspector Morse television series several times, in particular the episode "The Wolvercote Tongue".

[citation needed] John Ruskin favoured Gothic revival like the nearby Martyrs' Memorial.

The City Council wanted a classical style since the rest the buildings in Beaumont Street were early 19th century Regency.

[4] The university or Randolph Galleries (now part of the Ashmolean Museum) were built as a result of a thousand-pound gift left by Dr Randolph, a former Principal of St Alban Hall (now part of Merton College), who died in 1796.

There were no casualties, and the Oxfordshire Fire Service praised the hotel for its "quick evacuation processes."