11-742: Randolph Hotel may refer to: in England Randolph Hotel, Oxford , England in the United States Randolph Hotel (Des Moines, Iowa) , on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa, also known as Hotel Randolph Randolph Hotel (Chicago) , temporary name of the former Bismarck Hotel in Chicago, now Hotel Allegro Topics referred to by
22-547: A backup/secondary control in the event of a failure at Reading. The chief fire officer is Rob MacDougall. Every fire and rescue service in England and Wales is periodically subjected to a statutory inspection by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS). The inspections investigate how well the service performs in each of three areas. On a scale of outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate, Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service
33-602: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Randolph Hotel, Oxford The Randolph Hotel , also known as The Randolph Hotel by Graduate Hotels , is a 5 star hotel in Oxford , England , on the south side of Beaumont Street , at the corner with Magdalen Street , opposite the Ashmolean Museum and close to the Oxford Playhouse . The hotel building
44-710: Is in the Victorian Gothic style. The hotel featured in the Inspector Morse television series several times, in particular the episode " The Wolvercote Tongue ". The cast stayed at the hotel during filming in 1987 and there is now a Morse Bar. It was also in the followup series, " Lewis ". Construction of the Randolph Hotel began in 1864, to a design by William Wilkinson , an architect who also designed many houses in North Oxford . There
55-656: Is the fire service serving the county of Oxfordshire , England. It is predominantly an on-call fire service, although also has whole-time support. Fire and Rescue Service Headquarters is in Kidlington , Oxford , Oxfordshire. This is also the location of the fire service workshops. Oxfordshires control room is now based at Reading, as part of the Thames Valley Fire Control Centre, in partnership with Royal Berkshire and Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue services. Kidlington's control room now acts as
66-766: The roof. The emergency services were called at 16:46 and came at about 16:52. There were no casualties, and the Oxfordshire Fire Service praised the hotel for its "quick evacuation processes." The fire ended around 20:00. It was caused by the cooking of flambéed beef in the kitchen. The Randolph Hotel was acquired in 2019 by the American chain Graduate Hotels . 51°45′18″N 1°15′35″W / 51.7550°N 1.2596°W / 51.7550; -1.2596 Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service The Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service
77-425: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Randolph Hotel . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Randolph_Hotel&oldid=1012954011 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
88-608: Was debate about the building's design. 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 . A compromise was attained with a simplified Gothic façade, similar to the Oxford University Museum and the Oxford Union buildings, but in brick. The hotel
99-498: Was named not after Lord Randolph Churchill , who was connected with Blenheim Palace to the north of Oxford, but after Dr Francis Randolph, an eighteenth century university benefactor. 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. The hotel
110-507: Was opened in 1866. Major refurbishments of the hotel were undertaken in 1952, 1978, 1988 and 2000. During the 1952 renovations, an extension was added to the west, designed by J. Hopgood. On 17 April 2015, the Randolph Hotel had a "significant fire" (declared by the Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service ). The fire was confirmed to have started in the kitchens on the ground floor. It spread through building voids, eventually reaching
121-508: Was rated as follows: The Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service currently operates out of 25 fire stations, three of which are crewed on a wholetime 24-hour basis with retained (on-call) back-up, three stations are day-crewed and retained, and 19 are crewed solely by retained on-call firefighters. This article relating to firefighting is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about an organisation in England
SECTION 10
#1732771896630#629370