7 July 2013

This is my first visit to the city of Oxford. A city famous for its university and the connection with Morse.

Carfax Tower at the junction of Queen Street with High Street. This is all that remains of the 12th century St Martin’s church. This is considered to be the centre of the city.

A closer look at the clock and chimes which were just about to strike.

The corner of Cornmarket Street and High Street.

Looking down St Aldates towards Tom Tower. Tom Tower sits over Tom Gate which is the main entrance into Christ Church college and Tom Quad.

Looking back along the High Street towards Carfax tower. Behind the tree is All Saints Church which is now the library of Lincoln College.

Brasenose College.

Brasenose College entrance gate.

The Radcliffe Camera in Radcliffe Square. Built in 1749 to house the Radcliffe Science library. The building is now a reading room for the Bodleian Library.

The very elegant gilded gates into All Souls College.

Brasenose College from Radcliffe Square.

The University church of St Mary the Virgin from Radcliffe Square.

The University church of St Mary and All Souls College from the High Street.

A plaque on the High Street marking where Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke worked between 1655 and 1668.

High Street merchants.

Logic Lane is a small cobbled lane linking the High Street and Merton Street.

Merton Street and Merton College.

The clock above an entrance to the Examinations School in Merton street.

The Sheldonian Theatre from Broad Street.

The Sheldonian Theatre from the approach to the Bodleian Library.

A window in the Bodleian Library with a reflection of the Sheldonian Theatre.

The Clarendon building.

A stage being erected in the quadrangle in the Bodleian Library.

The Tower of The Five Orders from the Bodleian Library Quad. The tower sits above the main entrance to the library. The tower is no named because it is ornamented, in ascending order, with columns of each of the five orders of classical architecture: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite.

The statue of William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, in the Bodleian quad. He founded Pembroke college.

Another view of the Sheldonian with the Clarendon building on the right.

The Bridge of Sighs, or Hertford Bridge, which links two parts of Hertford College.

The view through Hertford Bridge to the Sheldonian and Bodleian.

Balliol College entrance in Broad Street.

Lincoln College, Front Quad, from the entrance in Turf Street.