Walton Street, Oxford

The Clarendon Institute building, which houses the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, is on the east side of the street.

[2] The Freud café-bar stands opposite the Oxford University Press, and at the head of Great Clarendon Street.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s it was an important part of the music scene in Oxford, spawning the groups Ride, Radiohead[6] and Supergrass.

The long wall separating the Infirmary from the street has been punctuated by a new pedestrian route to Woodstock Road and a health centre.

In 2015, a new controversial building[8] for the Blavatnik School of Government of Oxford University on the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter site, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, was opened immediately opposite the Oxford University Press building, dominating the location with its height (taller than Carfax Tower), and resulting in further removal of the high stone wall behind the old Infirmary site.

Oxford's main independent art house cinema, the Phoenix Picturehouse, is on the west side of the street.

Looking north along Walton Street with the Oxford University Press on the left and Somerville College on the right hand side.
Oxford University Press building on Walton Street from Somerville College.