10-11 September 2016

Home , Blue Boar Street, Crick Road, Gladstone Link, Norham Road, Nuneham Courtenay, Oxford Bus Museum

oxfordpreservation.org.uk Contents and Guide Contents

A B C D E F G

A44 A34 To Birmingham (M40) 1 C 1 h d a To Worcester and Northampton (A43) Roa d n l to i Lin n g t B o a n P&R n R b o P&R Water Eaton W u a r d Pear o y N Contents Guide o R o & d Tree

o r

s d t a a

o h t R o n d nso m c awli k R o Page 2 – City centre map Page 9 – OPT member only events

R o A40

o r

a R Oxford To Cheltenham d o a 2 d 2 Pages 4 – Highlights - picnics, family & Page 12 – Thursday 8 Sept

d oodst A40 Roa et’s treasure map gar Banbur Page 13 Mar – Friday 9 Sept St ock R A34

y R oad M Page 5 – Welcome arst anal oad To London (M40) Page 15 – Saturday 10 Sept ace on R d C n Pl A40 W so or wn en Oxford a To B oad xf lt ark Pages 7 – Highlights - music, chapels & O P o City Pages 20 & 21 n ad – OPT – what we do

o S R d n a F P&R Centre oad t o o y P&R r d R ﬁ e rn d m Seacourt choirs a a e ondon R e F o a L Thornhill ry R h l t r 3 bu o d 3 er N t R Page 29 – Sunday 11 Sept an o C a d B r Botley Road Page 8 e a – OPT venues rad d ad a m o th P k R Abingdon R r o No Cric A4142 r e I

ﬄey R

R Co

o wley R

a d s oad oad d n oad oa de R ar A420 rd G fo am To Bristol ck rh FF – Family friendly, Red – OPT venues, D – Disabled access, (D) – Partial disabled access Le No ad Ro 4 ton P&R 4 ing Bev Redbridge For more specific information on disabled access to venues, please contact OPT or the venue. A34 To Southampton

W et o B e a tr o S d n y s b P r t to o u a a r v c r k r y e k s s W R R R Ob o o o * All activities listed here are free of charge (there may be charges for refreshments and a a a a lt d o d d n S tr e other activities not listed here). 5 e 5 t

ad R Venues are listed alphabetically by day and on Sat/Sun are divided into Morning, Ro iv * le er Cher Keb Afternoon, All day, with walks listed separately. w ell S d t St a n Ro C o s r nd rk o All venues are listed with street name and postcode with a city centre map on page 2. e Pa s * ar s l th C u M R le o o tt d S a Li R n a um s d se ﬁ 6 Mu e 6 l d

d P a ad S r o t k R S r G s o Oxford City t R i n J l o a Booking... o e s a M h d n S Some activities must be pre-booked. The booking period is 16 August to 2 September t * r e e Centre t (12noon) via our website www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk or as indicated. O Jow xf ett Wal or k d C 7 anal 7 M ell Street aumont Street Holyw Be a Check for changes & new events at www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk to help you plan your g

W * C d a

o a t

r t

l e

c e e

n St

s et

t re weekend. S t

S r e oad

t Br e

r e

t L

t o

Bus Quee n et C n’s

e L g tr et T ane S o re Station rge st u w o r ip Meet the Oxford Preservation Trust team at our hub in Cornmarket, and for information e h r * G n S l a

St m S l eet ’s l Str N l t e S ge a a r Railway d e ch e i i t Br M r t w e r e Car St k e e th r e Station Hy e t t over the weekend.

I t S e n t t Park e n S rk t a H r M Street e Park End a e High S 8 l t tre 8 l d et Botley Roa S et t tre Members of the public take part in Oxford Open Doors at their own risk. Children under

r S * h O e Hig

e r

t i

t 14 must be accompanied by an adult. e t n ree et a St tre een S L Qu et Stre r ton e Boa er s M Blue M o a R gd al en B ri For further information call 01865 242918 or email dg e S

l s d St C ent 9 a lem 9 [email protected] t e

e c a l C O Car P ow x y ley p e e l Ro ns Park ad w Ro Iﬄ ad o Photography & Copyright: University of Oxford, Oxford Castle Unlocked, Bodleian Libraries, Exeter College, Said Business School,

C e y R o St Sepulchres Cemetery, Blavatnik School of Government, St Anthony’s College, Christ Church, Oxfordshire Fire Service, Oriel College, a d Merton College, Hufton & Crow, Valerie Petts, James Brittain, John Cairns, Chris Andrews & Luke Haye, Alun Jones, The Churches

well Conservation Trust, Andy Marshall

er Cher 10 Riv 10 Graphic Design: Sophie Durand Printed by Holywell Press, Oxford THE WESTON LIBRARY A 2 B C D E F G www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk3 3 Highlights & Welcome Highlights

Oxford Preservation Trust and Music, Chapels Anniversary Oxford University welcome you to our annual Festival of Oxford, a weekend when we & Choirs Events for 2016... celebrate the city – its places, spaces and, most of all, its people Join OPT at the Botanic Gardens Capability Brown 300th... A rare between 9am & 9.45am on Saturday opportunity to visit the gardens & see the to listen to the bells ring out from Capability Brown designed landscape of “I very much look forward to the 2016 Open Doors. We Magdalen Tower to mark the start of Nuneham Park at Nuneham Courtenay have a wonderful opportunity to welcome such a great the weekend. on Saturday (10am to 5pm). Visit the number of people to the spaces old and new, that are often stunning & unusual church & don’t miss There will be lots of musical Malcolm Airs talk at 10am on the history hidden from view. I know that I will find it a fascinating happenings at Magdalen College of Nuneham. Take a visit to the beautiful weekend, and I hope that others will too.” across the weekend and on Saturday, University of Oxford Harcourt tours demonstrations & much more Professor Louise Richardson, Arboretum, open free for the first time at Christ Church, including a special Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford for Oxford Open Doors. Choral Evensong at 5pm. Shakespeare 400th...Visit the Painted Do take a look at the Chapels at Merton Room in Cornmarket & learn about & University Colleges open on both Shakespeare’s connections with Oxford “It is a privilege to live in this great City and we love days & the recently restored Chapel at (Saturday & Sunday 10am to 4pm). arranging the Oxford Open Doors weekend so that Trinity College (Sunday only). we can all share in it. This year’s theme of ‘Music, ALL SAINTS, See the Waterloo Rifle Band Concert NUNEHAM COURTENAY chapels and choirs’ will engage sight, sound and a party at Oxford Town Hall from 11am on atmosphere, so thanks to everyone who helps makes it Saturday & the City of Oxford Silver happen. Enjoy the weekend.” Band on Sunday from 12noon at Oxford Castle Unlocked. Debbie Dance, Director Oxford Preservation Trust At the Bate Collection, a special exhibition featuring the development of the Hill violin bows (Saturday only). Oxford Open Doors is organised by Oxford Preservation Trust (OPT), in Round the weekend off with a concert partnership with the University of Oxford. It is free with thanks to our partners, at The Sheldonian Theatre on Sunday Visit the University of Oxford Also... volunteers, supporters and the places and people who open their doors. at 4pm, performed by the Pavlova Information Fair at Blackwell Hall Wind Quintet (also performing at in the Weston Library on Saturday. OPT receives no government funding and is supported by members’ subscriptions, Merton College Chapel on Saturday Do join us for an exclusive shopping sponsorship and donations. at 4pm). evening at Blackwell’s Bookshop in A special thanks to: The Gresswell Environment Trust Broad Street on Thursday 8 September, St Michael’s & All Saint’s Charities For more details & events, check between 7pm & 9pm. 15% of all sales individual venue listings & visit will go to support the work of OPT. www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk

www.heritageopendays 4 4 55 Highlights

A selection of fun over the weekend...

RESTAURANT & BAR * Christ Church Meadows, St Aldates – Sat Greyfriars, Iffley Road – Sat ON THE FAMOUS HIGH * * Iffley Glebe Field – Sat & Sun IN THE HEART OF OXFORD Great * Oxford Castle Quarter (the Exercise Yard) places – Sat & Sun * University Parks, South Parks Road – Sat to picnic & Sun

* Discover the hidden Painted Room in Cornmarket – Sat & Sun * Take a trip to Iffley and see the Church & Village Hall – Sat & Sun * Scale the Castle Mound at Oxford Castle Unlocked & meet the Archaeologists in the forFun the Key Learning Centre – Sat & Sun * Tour Oxford Castle Unlocked – Sun only * Play instruments at the Bate Collection, St family Aldates – Sat only * Hunt the Hidden Animals at Harris new bar Manchester College Chapel – Sun only * Don’t miss a trip to Magdalen College new kitchen Sat & Sun (High Street) & Christ Church (St Aldates) Sat only new menu Treasure * Go underground at Old County Hall in new terrace New Road – Sat & Sun & “meet the Map... military” – Sat only Collect your map from * Visit the Pitt Rivers Museum in South the OPT team hub in Parks Road, for a special musical object Cornmarket & follow the trail handling session – Sat only no need to book & see what you find... * There is plenty of fun to be had at Rewley Road Fire Station – Sat & Sun www.quod.co.uk

6 www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk 77 OPT Member only events only OPT Member

Join now Castle Unlocked, Oxford Castle Quarter, OX1 1AY – Saturday & Oxford Preservation Trust & enter the ballot Sunday, 10am to 5pm Scale the for “an Oxford Tour” mound of the 11th century motte- Members Only Events with Debbie, our and-bailey castle and see the 13th Sunday 4 Sept Director... don’t century well chamber. Sunday, 9am Nuneham Park, Nuneham Courtenay, OX44 miss out. to 1pm Experience prison life through 9PG – 2.30pm A rare opportunity to walk to the ages with our gaolers. See the the Carfax Conduit led by OPT Trustee, Julian punishment cells, Norman crypt & St Munby, and to tour the state rooms of Nuneham George’s Tower (guided tours – first House, built in 1756 for the 1st Earl Harcourt. come/first served). (D), FF Tuesday 6 Sept Old Berkeley Golf Course, Boars Hill, OX1 5HR – Saturday, 2.30pm “Walking OPT Awards Winner Tour 2015 – 1.30pm Venues Led by OPT Awards Panel Judge, Architect in the Footsteps of Poets on Boars Hill”. Join Philip Stewart for this 2 hour walk John Stevenson. and take in the wonderful views and Wednesday 7 Sept fascinating history. Just turn up. See us at: Radcliffe Camera, Radcliffe Square, OX1 4AJ – The Painted Room, 3 Cornmarket, 2.30pm Quite possibly the most iconic building OX1 3EX – Saturday & Sunday, 10am in Oxford. A personal tour of the library from the to 4pm Visit this hidden gem with CARFAX CONDUIT Gladstone link to the upper Camera. remarkably well-preserved Elizabethan wall paintings, for many years the Crown Thursday 8 Sept Tavern with Shakespeare connections. Blackwell’s Bookshop, Broad Street, OX1 3BQ Formerly the offices of OPT. FF - 7pm to 9pm Join us for an exclusive shopping LMS Swingbridge, Rewley Road, evening with 15% of all books sales going to support OX1 2RQ – Saturday, 2pm to 4pm the work of OPT. All welcome and bring a friend! D Learn about our exciting restoration Friday 9 Sept plans for this unique and nationally important (c.1851) hand-turned railway St Luke’s Chapel, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, swingbridge. Woodstock Road, OX2 6GG – 4.30pm RIBA lecture with leading Architect, Niall Mclaughlin. D Iffley Glebe Field, Church Way, OX4 Please book by emailing 4EJ – Saturday & Sunday, 11am to RADCLIFFE CAMERA - ST GEORGE’S TOWER 4pm A great place to take a picnic [email protected] or EXETER GARDENS and also enjoy the beautiful thatched call 01865 242918. Village Hall & Norman Church famous Come and meet the OPT team Not a member, join now to enjoy these exclusive events by for its Romanesque architecture. D, FF at our hub in Cornmarket. visiting www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk

8 8 www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk9 99 No letting agents and no letting fees

Lucy Properties is one of Oxford’s largest private landlords. Our properties are let and managed Oxford’s in-house and range from studio flats to townhouses and penthouses. Visit our leading law firm website and see what our tenants say.

01865 559 973

Lucy Properties Same lawyers, Walton Well Road • Oxford OX2 6EE • United Kingdom www.lucyproperties.co.uk different name [email protected] National reach, local Building presence trust Delivering MCS is pleased to support Oxford Open Doors 2016 results

SAID BUSINESS today. Hear some of the history SCHOOL from construction until present day. Advanced booking required.

Oxford University Press Museum, Thursday Great Clarendon Street, OX2 Friday 6DP - 11am & 2pm Tours Oxford University’s 500 year involvement 8 SEPT with printing, Including Alice in 9 SEPT Wonderland & the story of the Oxford English Dictionary. Advanced booking Blackwell’s Bookshop, Broad Street, BBC Oxford, 269 Banbury Road, required. D OX1 3BQ - 7pm to 9pm Join us for an OX2 7DW - Tours between 10am exclusive shopping evening with 15% & 2pm Visit BBC Radio Oxford and Said Business School, Park End of all books sales going to support the South Today TV news to see how we Street, OX1 1HP - 12 noon Tour work of OPT. All welcome and bring a broadcast to Oxfordshire - and maybe The award winning contemporary friend! D even appear on air yourself! Advanced architecture, beautiful gardens and booking required. D fascinating site history make this a Osney Mill, Mill Street, OX2 0AN - tour not to be missed (no booking 11am Tour Visit the restored mill & Cherwell Boathouse, 50 Bardwell required). D marina, the remains of Osney Abbey Road, OX2 6SS - 10am to 12 noon A built in 1410 & the Archimedes Screw celebration of the art of punting at this BODLEIAN LIBRARY that powers the site. Advanced booking authentic Edwardian boathouse and PRINTING PRESS required. D long established fine dining restaurant on the River Cherwell. Test your Oxfordshire County Council punting skills with a free half hour trial Emergency Planning Unit, with Boathouse staff onside to give Woodeaton Manor, OX3 9GU - 5pm expert tips and advice. Tour Cold War bunker which remains in use today. Hear some of the history Osney Mill, Mill Street, OX2 0AN - from construction until present day. 11am Tour Visit the restored mill & Advanced booking required. marina, the remains of Osney Abbey built in 1410 & the Archimedes Screw Oxford University Press Museum, that powers the site. Advanced booking Great Clarendon Street, OX2 6DP required. D - 11am Tour Oxford University’s 500 year involvement with printing, Oxfordshire County Council including Alice in Wonderland & the Emergency Planning Unit, Woodeaton story of the Oxford English Dictionary. OXFORD UNIVERSITY Manor, OX3 9GU - 5pm Tour Cold Advanced booking required. D War bunker which remains in use

1212 www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk 1313 Saturday

forum, enjoy the roof terrace & the café. Advanced booking required for talks (www.bsg.ox.ac.uk) D

Botnar Research Centre, Nuffield Saturday Orthopaedic Centre, Windmill Road, Oxford’s neighbourhood Headington, OX3 7LD - 10am to 10 SEPT 1pm Lab tours every 30 minutes, talks restaurant & bar on history of orthopaedics & research at the centre at 10.30am, 11.30am & 12.30pm. Historical photo exhibition In the morning... alongside research displays. (D) Campion Hall, Brewer Street, OX1 Bate Collection, Faculty of Music, 1QS - 10am to 12noon The Jesuit Hall St Aldates, OX1 1DB - 10am to 2pm of the University & unique in that it A special exhibition featuring the was designed by Lutyens. (D) development of the Hill violin bows, and an opportunity to play some of the Harris Manchester College Chapel, instruments in the Collection. D, FF Mansfield Road, OX1 3TD - 10am to 1pm The Chapel has been described as Blackwell’s Bookshop, Broad Street, a ‘Pre-Raphaelite Jewel’. The stained- OX1 3BQ - 11am & 11.30am Join a short glass windows designed by Edward walking tour through the bookshop & Burne-Jones are equisite. For young gain an exclusive insight into 137 years visitors there will be a discovery trail: of Blackwell’s Bookshop. See the “Gaffer’s “Hunt the Hidden Animals”. D, FF Office” - the beautiful Edwardian- style office used by Sir Basil Blackwell. Joiner’s Workshop, The Malthouse, Advanced booking required. D Tidmarsh Lane, OX1 1NQ - 10am to 1pm Tour the Joinery & gain an insight Open all day every day Blavatnik School of Government, into the intricate workings of the Oxford Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, from brunch until late. University Estate Services joiners. Half Woodstock Road, OX2 6GG (main hourly tours - first come first served. (D) entrance on Walton Street) - 10am Weekday express lunch 2 courses £13.50 to 1pm Designed by Herzog & de Kellogg College, 60-62 Banbury Meuron. The School will be open for Road, OX2 6PN - 11am to 2pm One of self-guided tours & pre-booked short the newest & largest graduate colleges talks. Come & hear about our work in the University. The site contains Gee’s Restaurant & Bar, 61 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PE to support better government around a number of Victorian villas, mostly 01865 553540 [email protected] www.gees-restaurant.co.uk the world. Discover the stunning open listed, set within spacious gardens. D

14 www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk 1515 Saturday

Oxford Playhouse, Beaumont Street, During the morning a visiting band of meet our friendly teachers, test your OX1 2LW - Tours at 10am, 11am and ringers from Tilehurst will be attempting level & find out the way to learn french 12noon Theatre tour, including backstage. a full peal on the bells. D that best suits you. Learn about the theatre’s history & see how a show is staged. Advanced booking Stanford University Centre in Oxford, Balliol Historic Collections Centre, required. (D) 65 High Street, OX1 4EL - 11am to 1pm St Cross Church, St Cross Road, OX1 Visit these six historic houses, recently 3TP - 12noon to 4pm Ancient church Private 20th Century Art Collection, refurbished & extended by Berman restored to house 8 centuries of Balliol Iffley - 11am Tour of works by Ben Geddes Stretton, see the new Garden College’s archives. Special exhibition Nicholson, David Jones, Winifred Room & recently replanted gardens. – for more information visit http:// Nicholson & other 19th & 20th Century Advanced booking required. (D) archives.balliol.ox.ac.uk D artists. Advanced booking required. The Story Museum, Pembroke Street, Blackwell’s Bookshop, Broad Street, Regent’s Park College, Pusey Street, OX1 1BP - 11am & 2pm Our story OX1 3BQ - 1pm & 1.30pm Join a short OX1 2LB - 11am A guided one hour heritage - Short talk on the history of walking tour through the bookshop & tour of the College & an exhibition on the Story Museum buildings & plans gain an exclusive insight into 137 years non-conformist hymn writers & their for its future development. D, FF of Blackwell’s Bookshop. See the “Gaffer’s hymns. Advanced booking required. Office” - the beautiful Edwardian- University of Oxford Botanic Garden, style office used by Sir Basil Blackwell. Regimental Chapel of the Oxfordshire Rose Lane, OX1 4AZ - 9am to 9.45am Advanced booking required. D & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Free entry between these times for the Christ Church Cathedral, St Aldates, 10am “bells ringing out” from Magdalen Campion Hall, Brewer Street, OX1 OX1 1DP - Please visit www.chch. Tower to mark the opening of Oxford 1QS - 2pm to 4pm The Jesuit Hall of ox.ac.uk for more details. (D) Open Doors. You are welcome to stay the University & unique in that it was after the bell ringing to view the Garden designed by Lutyens. (D) Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, (Glasshouses open at 10am). D, FF South Parks Road, OX1 3RE - 10am Chemistry Research Laboratory, 12 & 11.30am Presentation followed by a Wadham College, Parks Road, OX1 Mansfield Road, OX1 3TA (entrance guided tour of the department showing 3PN - 9am to 1pm Visit the Chapel & on South Parks Road) - 2pm to 3pm historic displays on the pioneering gardens of this College built 1610-13 by Interactive Panel Discussion: Cardiac medical research done in the department, master mason, William Arnold. D Chemistry: Understanding, Imaging especially in the development of Penicillin. & Treating Heart Disease. 3pm to Advanced booking required. D 3.45pm Meet the Scientists: Guided Tours. Advance booking required. D St Thomas The Martyr, between Becket In the Afternoon... Street & St Thomas Street, OX1 1PP - Hertford College, Catte Street, OX1 Alliance Francaise d’Oxford, St 2pm to 4pm The 12th century mother 3BW - 2pm to 5pm The College Chapel, Margaret’s Institute, 1st Floor, 30 church of west Oxford. Two displays in Dining Hall & Old Buildings Quadrangle Polstead Road, OX2 6TN - 12noon to church for James Washbrook (a famous will be available to view. (D) St Sepulchres Cemetery 4pm Visit our welcoming classrooms, bell ringer), & Thomas Chamberlain.

1616 www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk 1717 Saturday

Holywell Cemetery, St Cross Road, Merton College, Merton Street, OX1 Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Weston Library, Blackwell Hall, OX1 3LZ - 2pm to 5pm Guided 4JD - 3pm to 5pm (last entry 4.30pm) Marston Road, OX3 0EE - 2pm to Broad Street, OX1 3BG - 1pm to tours to point out graves of interest & Visitors can tour the college’s four main 4pm (tours) See the development of 4pm Oxford University’s Community evidence of wildlife. Complimentary quads, including Mob Quad, the oldest this beautiful building, which blends Chest - what’s in it for you? Did you leaflets & weather permitting, harp in Oxford; the Chapel, which dates architectural features of traditional know that the University invites you music & book stall. D back to the end of the 13th century; & Oxford colleges with forms & styles of to marvel at badgers in their natural the beautiful award-winning gardens. the classical period of Islam. Visitors will environment, peer through telescopes, Ioannou Centre - Faculty of Classics, 4pm The Pavlova Wind Quintet be able to see the main features of the attend fascinating lectures & visit 66 St Giles, OX1 3LU - 1pm to 4pm perform Schubert’s Octet in F major D. building. Advanced booking required historic spaces? Visit our hands-on Object Handling Session (1.15pm to 803, in the Chapel. (D) (www.oxcis.ac.uk). D Information Fair to find out more. D 2.15pm) There will be a chance to handle & examine ancient Athenian pottery on Museum of the History of Science, Regent’s Park College, Pusey Street, Wytham Woods, The Sawmill Office, loan from the Ashmoleum Museum, Broad Street, OX1 3AZ - 12noon to OX1 2LB - 1pm A guided one hour Wytham, OX2 8QQ - 2pm A 2 hour & manuscripts & curiosities from the 5pm Unrivalled collection of early tour of the College & an exhibition on walk within the most researched area Beazley Archive. Advanced Booking scientific Instruments & the world’s non-conformist hymn writers & their of woodland in the world. A chance required. Wolfgang De Melo Talk (2.30pm oldest surviving purpose built museum hymns. Advanced booking required. to learn about the history, ecology & to 3.30pm) “Music, metre & language: an (opened in 1683). (D) research interests found within this 1000 introduction to Roman comedy”. D Said Business School, Park End Street, acre woodland. Please note that no dogs Nuffield College, New Road, OX1 OX1 1HP - 12noon (tour) The award are allowed (no booking required). (D) LMS Swingbridge, Rewley Road, 1NF - 12noon to 4pm Explore our winning contemporary architecture, OX1 2RQ - 2pm to 4pm Learn about Grade ll listed Cotswold style, Social beautiful gardens & fascinating site Oxford Preservation Trust’s exciting Sciences Graduate College. There history make this a tour not to be restoration plans for this unique & will be musical entertainment in the missed (no booking required). D All Day... nationally important (c.1851) hand- Chapel & book in advance for tours of Ashmoleum Museum, Beaumont The Story Museum, Pembroke Street, turned railway swing bridge. our outstanding art collection (email: Street, OX1 2PH - 10am to 5pm OX1 1BP - 4pm Our story heritage - [email protected]). (D) Highlight tours at 11am, 12noon, 2pm Short talk on the history of the Story & 3pm; Poetry in the Galleries between Museum buildings & plans for its 2pm & 3pm; Downstairs in the Cast future development. D, FF Gallery 2pm to 2.45pm (spaces limited Ultimate Picture Palace, Jeune - first come/first served basis). (D) Street, OX4 1BN - 1.45pm to 3.30pm Bartlemas Chapel (lane alongside Screening of short film ‘66 Men of 271) Cowley Road, OX4 2AJ - 10am Grandpont’ exploring the lives of the to 6pm One of Oxford’s hidden gems; men on the WW1 memorial in St this Grade I listed C14th Chapel Matthew’s Church (also open) plus was originally part of the earlier St a short talk about the cinema. Film Bartholomew’s leper hospital (no car features music by Oxford Composer. D access up the lane). (D) BLAVATNIK SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT

1818 www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk19 1919 OPT - what we do OPT - what

We help plan Oxford

We conserve our heritage & buildings

If you love OXFORD access & Education We look after Oxford’s green setting is embedded in all & views that we do join us

2020 www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk 2121 Saturday

Be a Buildings Archaeologist for a full details. Refreshments available in our Iffley Village Hall, Church Way, Iffley, Chapel is a wonderful expression of high day with Oxford Archaeology, Key special Tom Quad café. Join us at 5pm for OX4 4EJ - 11am to 4pm The first Victorian architecture, stained glass, Learning Centre, Castle Unlocked, Choral Evensong in the Cathedral. (D), FF family events of LIVING STONES, statuary & wood carving. Organ recital Oxford Castle Quarter, OX1 1AY - the education programme for St at 2.30pm by the College Director of 10am to 4pm (last entry 3.30pm) Meet Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery, Mary’s, Iffley. Information displays in Music, John Oxlade. Café also open. D the archaeologists. ‘I spy’ trail round North Hinksey Lane, Botley, OX2 0LX the thatched Village Hall, leaflets & Oxford Castle. Get to know your brick - 10am to 6pm The Cemetery is laid trail guides. Special activities will be Magdalen College, High Street, bonds & timber joints at our drop-in out precisely as are it’s Cemeteries in available for young children on the OX1 4AU - 12noon to 7pm Visit the workshops. Archaeology Walks with Northern France & wherever battles were theme of “Iffley Village in 1160”. D, FF magnificent gardens, Deer Park, Addison Julian Munby (visit website for details & fought in the two World Wars. D Walk (riverside walk), Chapel & Hall of booking). Learn all about the Historic Inner Space Oxford, 21 Broad Street, this famous Oxford College founded in First Church of Christ Scientist, 36a Towns Atlas of Oxford Project. See OX1 3AS - 11am to 4.30pm Inner 1458. 10am Bells ring out to mark the St Giles, OX1 3LD - 10am to 4pm finds from the Westgate Dig that hint Space is a meditation centre in a opening of Oxford Open Doors, 3pm Visit our simple, light-filled Church at the music and the religious artefacts beautifully renovated historic building. Organ recital in Chapel. D, FF auditorium, Sunday School & pavilion- that were part of the Greyfriar’s life in Free activities on demand: 10 minute style Reading Room. Listen to music, or Meet the Army at Old County Hall, medieval Oxford. D, FF guided meditations, virtuescope just sit & enjoy the peaceful courtyard readings, house tours with information New Road, OX1 1ND – 11am to 4pm Bibliographical Press in the Old garden. 2.30pm - 30 minutes of of previous tenants. (D) The Rifles are the heritage unit of the Bodleian Library, Broad Street, OX1 inspirational songs & organ music. (D) Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light 3BG - 11am to 3pm See the historic Keble College, Parks Road, OX1 Infantry. See the equipment we use & Frewin Hall, St Michael’s Street, OX1 presses & type in the Bodleian Library’s 3PG - 10am to 4pm Founded in 1868, talk to serving soldiers. D, FF 2DR - 10am to 3pm A self-guided tour printing workshop. Demonstrations of Keble College was the first new Oxford of Frewin Hall: originally an Augustinian Museum of Oxford, Town Hall, St printing throughout the opening times. College in over 200 years. The founders Priory in 1430 (see Brasenose College Aldates, OX1 1BX – 10.30am to 4pm D, FF chose William Butterfield as architect, also). (D) thereby ensuring that the new College Find out more about the fascinating Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square, would be a cause of controversy. (D) history & discover rooms not normally Greyfriars Garden & St Edmund & St OX1 4AJ - 10am to 3pm A self-guided on view & a self-led family trail. 11am to Frideswide Roman Catholic Church, tour of the College. Visit our stunning Lincoln College, Turl Street, OX1 12.30pm Waterloo Rifles Military Band 182 Iffley Road, OX4 1SB - 9.30am to Chapel, Dining Hall & Quads with 3DR - 11am to 5pm The beautiful in concert. Tours at 10.30am, 2pm & 5pm Self-guided tour of this unusual views of the Radcliffe Camera (see Front & Chapel Quads will be open, 3.30pm (first come/first served). D, FF flint-stone Norman style Church with Frewin Hall also). (D) as well as our Chapel & Dining room Good Shepherd Chapel, Baptistery & (closed during lunch 12noon - 1.30pm). Nuffield Department of Medicine Christ Church, St Aldates, OX1 1DP Friary garden Picnics welcome & tea & The College Library in the former All Research Building, Roosevelt Drive, - 10am to 5pm (Last entry 4pm & coffee provided. D Saints Church will be open from 11am Headington, OX3 7FZ - 10am to Cathedral closes at 4pm) Visit the to 3pm. John Wesley Room viewings 4pm Family friendly science fair, lab Iffley Glebe Field, Church Way, Iffley, Cathedral, Great Hall, Picture Gallery, by request (access issues). D tours (over 16’s only) & talks about OX4 4EJ – Saturday & Sunday, 11am Quads & gardens. Tours, demonstrations the scientific work we do. Advanced to 4pm A great place to take a picnic & recitals will be held throughout the Mansfield College Chapel, Mansfield booking required for lab tours (email: and enjoy the thatched Village Hall & day. Please visit www.chch.ox.ac.uk for Road, OX1 3TF - 11am to 5pm The [email protected]). D, FF Norman Church.

2222 www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk 2323 Saturday

Thomas in the hands-on production Nuneham Park, Nuneham Courtenay, Oxford Bus Museum (Broad Street, ST ANTHONY’S COLLEGE OX44 9PG – 10am to 5pm A rare OX1 3BH) - 10am to 4pm Free vintage of an album of electronic music. opportunity to visit the gardens & see the bus rides. For timetables & bus stops Participants of all ages are encouraged Capability Brown designed landscape (tours see www.oxfordbusmuseum.org.uk FF to play a wide & unusual variety of available with volunteers from Oxfordshire instruments (no booking necessary). Gardens Trust). Visit the stunning & Oxford Castle Unlocked, Oxford 10am to 2pm Enjoy free short courses unusual church (in the care of the Churches Castle Quarter, OX1 1AY - 10am & workshops in art history, writing Conservation Trust). Take a visit to the to 5pm Scale the mound of the 11th skills & more. Advanced booking beautiful University of Oxford Harcourt century motte-and-bailey castle & see required (www.conted.ox.ac.uk). D, FF Arboretum. Don’t miss Malcolm Airs talk the 13th century well chamber. FF on the history of Nuneham at 10am in the Oxford University Parks, South Lodge, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, St church (www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk for South Parks Road, OX1 3RF - 8am to Philip & St James Church, Woodstock more details). dusk Explore the Parks, a perfect place Road, OX2 6HR - 9.30am to 4.30pm for a picnic. 11am & 2pm - Guided tours Old County Hall, Oxfordshire County A Victorian Gothic Revival Church by of the Park with an expert. Advanced Council, New Road, OX1 1ND - 11am G.E. Street, renowned for its stained booking required for tours. (D), FF to 4pm The former County Courts of glass. Mary Chapel & the Chapel of the Oxford. Come & see the Court Rooms Advent open to visitors. Conducted tour The Painted Rooms, 3 Cornmarket, & Council Chamber with its grim of the tower; refreshments available. D OX1 3EX – 10am to 4pm Visit this tunnel to Oxford Prison. Refreshments hidden gem with remarkably well- Oxford Oratory Church, 25 Woodstock available raising funds for local cancer preserved Elizabethan wall paintings, Road, OX2 6HA - 8am to 7.30pm charity. (D), FF for many years the Crown Tavern with (Church), 11am to 5pm (Library) Shakespeare connections. Formerly the Old Fire Station, 40 George Street, Listed church building open. Newly built offices of Oxford Preservation Trust. FF OX1 2AQ - 11am to 6pm Explore the library with exhibition including music exhibitions, including a Cowley Road manuscripts, church plans & models. Pitt Rivers Museum, South Parks Carnival tribute in the Gallery. D Mass 10am & 6.30pm. D Road, OX1 3PP - 10am to 4.30pm Join us in the galleries between 11am & 3pm Old Radcliffe Infirmary, Radcliffe Oxford Quaker Meeting House, 43 St for a special musical object handling Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Giles, OX1 3LW - 10am to 5pm Tranquil session. You’ll even get to have a go at Road, OX2 6GG - 10am to 3pm Visit garden & refurbished Meeting House (with creating your own tune! D, FF the recently refurbished Old Radcliffe special green credentials), exhibitions (in Infirmary (opened in 1770), now home Library): Quaker service in WW1 - Friends The Queen’s College, OX1 4AW - to Radcliffe Humanities, including ambulance, relief work etc. D 11am to 3.30pm Visit the magnificent TORCH - The Oxford Research Centre Hall & Chapel of this renowned Oxford Oxford University Department in the Humanities. Self-guided tours College founded in 1341. (D) for Continuing Education, Rewley of the building & information about House, 1 Wellington Square, OX1 2JA Radcliffe Science Library, University TORCH research. D - 10am to 4pm Join music tutor Roger of Oxford, Parks Road, OX1 3QP - WESTON LIBRARY 10.30am to 2pm (last entry 1.30pm) The

2424 www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk 2525 Saturday

primary Science Library for the University St Benet’s Hall, 38 St Giles, OX1 3LN by the Estates Service Department. spires’. See inside a working clock of Oxford. Grade II listed building with - 10am to 2pm Founded in 1897, a Gaze up at the Chapel’s equisite Pre- mechanism & the cell door of Cranmer, architecture by Thomas Graham Jackson Benedictine Permanent Private Hall of Raphaelite windows. D Latimer & Ridley imprisoned here. (D) & Hubert Worthington. Displays from the the University of Oxford. Learn about collections, 3D-printing demonstration, the development of St Benet’s through a St Margaret of Antioch Church, St Sepulchre’s Cemetery, 80 Walton building tours. photographic exhibition & hourly talks. Binsey, OX2 0NG - 9am to 5pm Grade Street, OX2 6EA - 2pm to 4pm An The Chapel built in 1911 in the Gothic I listed 12th century Church, home to award winning secret place providing Real Tennis Court, Merton College, Revival Style to a design by Canon the Treacle Well as celebrated in Alice a green space & tranquility off busy Merton Street, OX1 4JD - 11am to 3pm Alexander Scholes is a must. On show In Wonderland. D, FF Walton Street. Self-guided tour sheet Demonstrations of the sport on the hour, will be a Grade I bureau organ c.1780, available, showing memorials of local St Mary’s Church, Iffley, OX4 4EJ - 11am the ancestor of modern tennis, at the the only surviving work of Charles notables, musicians & casualties of the to 4pm Visit the 12th century Church second oldest court in the world. D, FF Crole from Soho in London. (D) First World War. (D) famous for its Romanesque architecture Rewley Road Fire Station, OX1 2EH St Francis Church, Hollow Way, & its spiritual calm, the thatched Village University Church of St Mary the - 9.30am to 4pm The Fire Station will Cowley, OX3 7JE - 10am to 5pm Hall for family activities & the Glebe Virgin, High Street, OX1 4BJ - 11am be open to view all appliances & to get Church opened in 1931 on land donated Field for a picnic. Information displays, to 3pm Access to the original University a feel for how a modern day fire station by Lord Nuffield. Unique painted beams leaflets & guides. D, FF Library dating from 1320. Spectacular functions. Static & practical displays, depicting scenes from the life of St views of Radcliffe Square. Free tours St Mary & St John Church, 274 Cowley & advice on fire & road safety. Don’t Francis & hanging cross. William Morris of the Church hourly. 12noon to 1pm Road, OX4 1UR - 10am to 6pm miss 11.30am Road traffic collision trail available. D Free creative writing workshop. Choral demonstration & 1pm Casualty rescue Information on this notable Victorian singing. Access to Tower by ticket. (D) scenario. (D), FF St James the Apostle Church, Church. First Vicar was Father Benson Beauchamp Lane, Cowley, OX4 3LF (Blue Plaque on St Stephen’s House, University College, High Street, OX1 St Anthony’s College (The Investcorp - 10am to 5pm Early Norman church. Marston St). Wildlife & local history 4BH - 10am to 4pm Visit the oldest Building), 62 Woodstock Road, OX2 Former garrison church of the Oxford trails through the churchyard. (D) College in Oxford founded in 1249 by 6JF - 10am to 4pm Access to the & Bucks Light Infantry. Early scratch William of Durham. Visit the Chapel St Matthew’s Church, Marlborough library reading room, gallery & lecture sundials, Saxon font, fine organ rescued & it’s beautiful Van Linge hand painted Road, OX1 4LW - 10am to 4pm The theatre designed by Zaha Hadid. D from St Martin’s Church at Carfax. Talks windows, Percy Shelley Memorial, Church was dedicated by Bishop William & tour at 12noon & 3pm. William 16th century Dining Hall & beautiful St Barnabas Church, Cardigan Street, Stubbs in 1890. The building is greatly Morris trail available. D gardens. Enjoy tea, scones & pimms OX2 6BG - 10am to 6pm Founded admired, especially the violet & pink served all day. Choir recital between in 1869. The architectural style is St Luke’s Chapel, Oxford University, window panes. (see also the Ultimate 10am & 12noon. Garden tours every that of a Romanesque basilica with Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Picture Palace). (D) 30 minutes between 10am & 12noon, Byzantine influences. The Parish has Woodstock Road, OX2 6GG - 9.30am and 2pm & 4pm. Pre booked Cream St Michael at the Northgate, a rich liturgical & musical tradition. to 4pm (last entry 3.45pm) St Luke’s Teas at 11am & 3pm (charges apply). D Cornmarket, OX1 3EY - 10.30am Exhibition of choir archives & history of Chapel was formerly the Church for to 4.30pm Visit Oxford’s ancient City music, demonstration & performance of the Old Radcliffe Hospital. Come W Lucy & Co Ltd, Eagle Works, Church & climb it’s Saxon Tower for plainsong, organ music & “dress up as a inside and see how this Grade I listed Walton Well Road, OX2 6EE - 10am to wonderful views of the ‘dreaming chorister” - all throughout the day. D, FF Chapel has been beautifully restored 4pm Enjoy the canal side piazza on the

2626 www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk 2727 Sunday

site of Lucy’s foundry & photographic Oxford Railways, Past, Present & Oxford Castle Unlocked, Oxford exhibition & display of archive material Future – 11am History & future Castle Quarter, OX1 1AY - 9am to on W Lucy & Co Ltd which has been development of the railways in Oxford 1pm Experience prison life through based in the city for over 200 years. D with David Mather, former Railway the ages with our gaolers. See the Manager. Advanced booking required. castle mound, punishment cells, Wesley Memorial Methodist Church, Sunday Norman crypt & St George’s Tower. New Inn Hall Street, OX1 2DH - Guided tours – first come/first served. 10am to 5.30pm Visit the Church & From 12 noon hear the City of Oxford learn more about the history of the 11 SEPT Silver Band (D), FF Wesleys in Oxford. Sanctuary open. Music played during part of the day. D Private 20th Century Art Collection, Iffley - 11am Tour of works by Ben Wolfson College, Linton Road, OX2 In the morning... Nicholson, David Jones, Winifred 6UD - 11am to 4.30pm Stroll in the Nicholson & other 19th & 20th Century secluded riverside gardens of the College Bibliographical Press in the Old artists. Advanced booking required. designed by Powell and Moya. (D) Bodleian Library, Broad Street, OX1 3BG - 11am to 1pm See the Wadham College, Parks Road, OX1 historic presses and type in the 3PN - 9am to 1pm Visit the Chapel & Walks... Bodleian Library’s printing workshop. gardens of this College built 1610-13 by Medieval Jewish Quarter - 2pm Join Demonstrations of printing throughout master mason, William Arnold. D Historian, Pam Manix, for an insight the opening times. D, FF into this little-known aspect of Oxford’s WYTHAM WOODS Blavatnik School of Government, Medieval History. Advanced booking Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, required. D In the Afternoon... Woodstock Road, OX2 6GG (main Balliol Historic Collections Centre, Walking in the Footsteps of Poets entrance on Walton Street) - 10am to St Cross Church, St Cross Road, OX1 on Boars Hill - 2.30pm Wonderful 1pm Designed by Herzog & de Meuron. 3TP - 12noon to 4pm Ancient church views & fascinating history led by The School will be open for self-guided restored to house 8 centuries of Balliol Philip Stewart. Meet at the Oxford tours & pre-booked short talks. Come College’s archives. Special exhibition Preservation Trust’s land, Old Golf & hear about our work to support better – for more Information visit http:// Course, Boars Hill opposite the Open government around the world. Discover archives.balliol.ox.ac.uk D University building. Just turn up. 2 the stunning open forum, enjoy the roof Green Open Homes, Rose Hill – hour walk - wear stout walking shoes. terrace & the café. Advanced booking required for talks (www.bsg.ox.ac.uk) D 1.30pm to 4pm Come & see the Railings Walk – 10.30am Join Sarah various environmental improvements Baines to learn more about the history Campion Hall, Brewer Street, OX1 made to 4 homes in the Rose Hill of Oxford’s Railings in North Oxford. 1QS - 10am to 12noon The Jesuit Hall area. For more details visit www. Advanced booking required. of the University & unique in that it oxfordpreservation.org.uk CHRIST CHURCH was designed by Lutyens. (D)

2828 www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk 2929 Sunday

Hertford College, Catte Street, OX1 Magdalen College School, OX4 1DZ centre, sanctuary, guides to explain William Stubbs in 1890. The building is 3BW - 2pm to 5pm The College Chapel, - 12noon to 4pm Gardens only. Stroll about Judaism, display about Judaism greatly admired, especially the violet & Dining Hall & Old Buildings Quadrangle through the beautiful school gardens & Oxford’s Jewish heritage. D pink window panes. (D) will be available to view. (D) crossing over the white Chinese bridges. Information & history available. Teas. D Oxford Quaker Meeting House, 43 St Michael at the Northgate, Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Road, St Giles, OX1 3LW - 2pm to 5pm Cornmarket, OX1 3EY - 10.30am Headington, OX3 8LH - 12noon to Museum of the History of Science, Tranquil garden & refurbished Meeting to 4.30pm Visit Oxford’s ancient City 5pm Explore Gilbert Scott’s Victorian Broad Street, OX1 3AZ - 12noon to House (with special green credentials), Church & climb it’s Saxon Tower for “village” Church in Headington Quarry 5pm Unrivalled collection of early exhibitions (in Library): Quaker wonderful views of the ‘dreaming and it’s associations with CS Lewis. scientific instruments and the world’s service in WW1 - Friends ambulance, spires’. See inside a working clock Notable graves in the churchyard include oldest surviving purpose built museum relief work etc. D mechanism & the cell door of Cranmer, Lewis, William Kimber (father of English (opened in 1683). (D) Latimer & Ridley imprisoned here. (D) Morris) & Robert Doyne (founder of the St Cross College & Pusey House, Oxford Eye Hospital). (D) Museum of Oxford, Town Hall, St St Giles’, OX1 3LZ - 2pm to 4pm St Stephen’s House/St John the Aldates, OX1 1BX – 11am to 4pm Guided 45 minute tours of the Evangelist Church, 109a Iffley Road, Holywell Cemetery, St Cross Road, Find out more about the fascinating College’s art collection & Pusey OX4 1EH - 2pm to 6pm A permanent OX1 3LZ - 2pm to 5pm Guided tours to history & discover rooms not normally House’s Chapel & Library. Advanced private hall of the University of point out graves of interest & evidence on view to the public & a self-led family booking required. (D) Oxford, will be welcoming the public of wildlife. There will be complimentary trail. Tours at 11am & 2pm (first come/ to its magnificent neo-Gothic Grade I leaflets & weather permitting, harp first served). D, FF St Edmund Hall, Queens Lane, listed church of St John the Evangelist music and book stall. D OX1 4AR - 12noon to 4pm The first together with its cloister, accessed from Pembroke College, Pembroke Square, reference to the Hall was recorded in the Iffley Road. (D) Iffley Village Hall, Church Way, St Aldates, OX1 1DW - 1pm to 5pm 1317. The Shaft of the well in the Front Iffley, OX4 4EJ - 1pm to 4pm The first The Main Quads will be open, the Quadrangle remains from it’s medieval St Thomas The Martyr, between family events of LIVING STONES, College Hall, the Chapel & display of rare formation. View the Old Dining Becket Street & St Thomas Street, the education programme for St & valuable books from our collection. D Hall (1652) & the Chapel (1680). OX1 1PP - 2pm to 4pm The 12th Mary’s, Iffley. Information displays in churchyard & gardens open. (D) century mother church of west Oxford. the thatched Village Hall, leaflets and Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Two displays in church for James trail guides. Special activities will be Marston Road, OX3 0EE - 2pm to 4pm St Mary’s Church, Iffley, OX4 4EJ - Washbrook (a famous bell ringer), & available for young children on the See the development of this beautiful 11am to 4pm Visit the 12th century Thomas Chamberlain. Bellringing also. theme of “Iffley Village in 1160”. D, FF building, which blends architectural Church famous for its Romanesque 2pm A guided walk around St Thomas features of traditional Oxford colleges architecture & its spiritual calm, The Martyr & the Castle by Liz Woolley. Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St with forms & styles of the classical period the thatched Village Hall for family Starting and ending at St Thomas’. D Anne’s College, 56 Woodstock Road, of Islam. Visitors will be able to see the activities & the Glebe Field for a OX2 6HS - 2pm to 3pm This 40 minute main features of the building. Advanced picnic. Information displays, leaflets Trinity College, Broad Street, OX1 lecture-recital by College performers & booking required (www.oxcis.ac.uk). D & guides. D, FF 3BH - 2.30pm to 5pm The recently composers opens up the College’s focus on restored Chapel is a remarkable example outreach in developing an understanding Oxford Jewish Congregation, 21 St Matthew’s Church, Marlborough of English Baroque architecture & of harmony & composition through Richmond Road, Jericho, OX1 2JL Road, OX1 4LW - 12noon to 4pm contains a large amount of carvings by performance. D - 2pm to 5.30pm Ground floor of The Church was dedicated by Bishop the master carver Grinling Gibbons.

3030 www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk 3131 Sunday

This is also the only Chapel in Oxford Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square, First Church of Christ Scientist, 36a where the Founder is buried. Access also OX1 4AJ - 10am to 3pm A self-guided St Giles, OX1 3LD - 12noon to 4pm available to the Hall & gardens. (D) tour of the College. Visit our stunning Visit our simple, light-filled Church Chapel, Dining Hall & Quads with auditorium, Sunday School & pavilion- The Story Museum, Pembroke Street, views of the Radcliffe Camera (See style Reading Room. Listen to music, or OX1 1BP - 12noon & 2pm Our story Frewin Hall also). (D) just sit & enjoy the peaceful courtyard heritage - Short talk on the history of garden. 12.30pm - 30 minutes of the Story Museum buildings & plans Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery, inspirational songs and organ music. (D) for its future development. D, FF North Hinksey Lane, Botley, OX2 0LX - 10am to 6pm Cemetery is laid Frewin Hall, St Michael’s Street, Westgate and the Lost Suburb of St out precisely as are it’s Cemeteries in OX1 2DR - 10am to 3pm A self- Ebbe’s, Oxford Archaeology, Key Northern France & wherever battles were guided tour of Frewin Hall: originally Learning Centre, Castle Unlocked, fought in the two World Wars. D an Augustinian Priory in 1430 (see Oxford Castle Quarter, OX1 1AY - Brasenose College also). (D) 12noon to 4pm (last entry 3.30pm) Divinity School in the Old Bodleian Share memories, study maps & see old Library, Broad Street, OX1 3BG - Iffley Glebe Field, Church Way, OX4 photographs. Discover what life was 11am to 5pm A magnificent piece of 4EJ – Saturday & Sunday, 11am to like in St Ebbe’s with the finds in the gothic architecture. This was the first 4pm A great place to take a picnic & REWLEY ROAD FIRE STATION Westgate Pop Up Museum. Also learn teaching room & earliest examination also enjoy the thatched Village Hall & all about the Historic Towns Atlas of hall of the University of Oxford. D Norman Church. Oxford Project. D, FF Examination Schools, University of Inner Space Oxford, 21 Broad Street, Oxford, 75-81 High Street, OX1 4BG OX1 3AS - 11am to 4.30pm Inner - 10am to 4pm (last entry 3.30pm) A Space is a meditation centre in a All Day... rare opportunity to explore & discover beautifully renovated historic building. Ashmoleum Museum, Beaumont Street, the Examination Schools. Do a self- Free activities on demand: 10 minute OX1 2PH - 10am to 5pm Highlight guided visit or book onto a guided guided meditations, virtuescope Tours at 11am, 12noon, 2pm & 3pm. (D) tour to see additional areas & learn readings, house tours with information more about the architecture, history & of previous tenants. (D) Balliol College, Broad Street, OX1 uses of this beautiful & versatile venue. 3BJ - 11am to 4pm Visit the splendid Advanced booking required for guided Keble College, Parks Road, OX1 gardens, Hall & Chapel. The Buttery tours. D 3PG - 10am to 4pm Founded in 1868, will also be open for refreshments. (D) Keble College was the first new Oxford Exeter College, Turl Street, OX1 3DP College in over 200 years. The founders Bartlemas Chapel (lane alongside 271) - 10am to 4pm Chapel & the rarely chose William Butterfield as architect, Cowley Road, OX4 2AJ - 10am to 5pm open Fellows’ Garden & Dining Hall thereby ensuring that the new College One of Oxford’s hidden gems; this Grade (latter subject to change). See College’s would be a cause of controversy. (D) I listed C14th Chapel was originally part Antony Gormley sculpture, on the roof of the earlier St Bartholomew’s leper in Broad Street! (D) ORIEL COLLEGE Lady Margaret Hall, Norham Road, hospital (no car access up the lane). (D) OX2 6QA - 11am to 5pm Striking

3232 www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk 3333 Sunday

1930s Chapel & Dining Hall designed Old County Hall, Oxfordshire County The Painted Rooms, 3 Cornmarket, by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Beautiful Council, New Road, OX1 1ND - 11am OX1 3EX – 10am to 4pm Visit this peaceful gardens. (D) to 4pm The former County Courts of hidden gem with remarkably well- Oxford. Come & see the Court Rooms preserved Elizabethan wall paintings, Lincoln College, Turl Street, OX1 & Council Chamber with its grim for many years the Crown Tavern with 3DR - 11am to 5pm The beautiful tunnel to Oxford Prison. Refreshments Shakespeare connections. Formerly the Front and Chapel Quads will be available raising funds for local cancer offices of Oxford Preservation Trust. FF open, as well as our Chapel, & Dining charity. (D), FF room (closed during lunch 12noon - The Queen’s College, OX1 4AW - 1.30pm). The College Library in the Oriel College, Oriel Square, OX1 11am to 3.30pm Visit the magnificent former All Saints Church will be open 4EW - 10am to 3pm The oldest royal Hall & Chapel of this renowned Oxford from 11am to 3pm. John Wesley Room foundation in Oxford. See our wonderful College founded in 1341. (D) viewings by request (access issues). D Hall with the largest oil painting of the Queen (our visitor). Stroll around the Rewley Road Fire Station, OX1 2EH Magdalen College, High Street, First, Second and Third Quad while - 9.30am to 4pm The Fire Station will OX1 4AU - 12noon to 7pm Visit enjoying the varying architectural styles be open to view all appliances & to get the magnificent gardens, Deer Park, spanning many centuries. (D) a feel for how a modern day fire station functions. Static & practical displays Addison Walk (riverside walk), Chapel MERTON COLLEGE & Hall of this famous Oxford College Oxford Castle Unlocked, Oxford & advice on fire & road safety. Don’t’ founded in 1458. 1.30pm Magdalen Castle Quarter, OX1 1AY - 10am miss 11.30am Road traffic collision College School open Choir rehearsal, to 5pm Scale the mound of the 11th demonstration & 1pm Casualty rescue see the various carvings & engravings 3pm Organ recital in Chapel. D century motte-and-bailey castle & see scenario. (D), FF recording former Principals, Vice the 13th century well chamber. Cars at Principals & notable alumni including Mansfield College Chapel, Mansfield the Castle too. FF Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, Margaret Thatcher. (D) Road, OX1 3TF - 11am to 5pm The OX1 3AZ - 10am to 4pm (last Chapel is a wonderful expression of high Oxford Oratory Church, 25 admittance to the cupola at 3.15pm St Barnabas Church, Cardigan Street, Victorian architecture, stained glass, Woodstock Road, OX2 6HA - 7.30am and last admittance to the Theatre OX2 6BG - 10am to 6pm Founded statuary & wood carving. Organ recital at to 7.30pm (Church), 12.30am to 5pm 3.30pm) For fantastic views over in 1869. The architectural style is 2.30pm by the College Director of Music, (Library) Listed church building open. Oxford why not visit the University’s that of a Romanesque basilica with John Oxlade. Café also open. D Newly built library with exhibition magnificent Ceremonial Hall,Byzantine influences. The Parish has including music manuscripts, church designed by Sir Christopher Wren. a rich liturgical & musical tradition. Merton College, Merton Street, OX1 plans & models. Mass 8am, 9.30am Talks scheduled throughout the day & Exhibition of choir archives & history of 4JD - 10am to 5pm (last entry 4.30pm) with choir, 11am with choir, 6.30pm culminating in a free classical recital at music, demonstration & performance Visitors can tour the college’s four main Sung Vespers & Benediction Sunday. D 4pm by the Pavlova Wind Quintet. (D) of plainsong, organ music & “dress up quads, including Mob Quad, the oldest as a chorister” - all throughout the day. in Oxford; the Chapel, which dates back Oxford University Parks, South Somerville College, Woodstock 10.30am Mass for Holy Cross Day, with to the end of the 13th century; & the Lodge, South Parks Road, OX1 3RF Road, OX2 6HD - 10am to 4pm the choristers & choir of St Barnabas, beautiful award-winning gardens. 5pm - 8am to dusk Explore the Parks, a Grounds will be open & exhibitions directed by Dr Tom Edwards, organist. Choral Evensong sung by Portsmouth perfect place for a picnic. D, FF displayed. The Chapel will also be open 6.30pm Evensong & Benediction for Festival Choir. (D) where visitors can listen to music & Holy Cross Day. D

3434 www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk 3535 St Hugh’s College, St Margaret’s Road, Wolfson College, Linton Road, OX2 OX2 6LE - Tours at 11.30am, 1.30pm 6UD - 11am to 4.30pm Stroll in the & 3.30pm Tour (90 mins) our buildings secluded riverside gardens of the & gardens. Visit the Chapel. Meet at the College designed by Powell & Moya. (D) front quad. No booking required. (D) Worcester College, Beaumont Street, St Margaret of Antioch Church, OX1 2LW - 10.30am to 4.30pm One Binsey, OX2 0NG - 9am to 5pm Grade of Oxford’s best kept secrets. Come & I listed 12th century church, home to enjoy the tranquil charm of our college, the Treacle Well as celebrated In Alice its extensive award winning gardens & In Wonderland. D, FF stunning architecture. Refreshments available. (D) St Mary & St John Church, 274 Cowley Road, OX4 1UR - 12noon to 4pm Information on this notable Victorian Punts 01865 515 978 Church. First Vicar was Father Benson Walks... Restaurant 01865 552 746 Marquee 01865 552 746 (Blue Plaque on St Stephen’s House, Medieval Jewish Quarter - 2pm Join www.cherwellboathouse.co.uk Marston St). Wildlife & local history Historian, Pam Manix, for an insight trails through churchyard. Tower open into this little-known aspect of Oxford’s for 7yrs old +. (D) Medieval History. Advanced booking required. D University College, High Street, OX1 4BH - 10am to 4pm Visit the oldest St Thomas The Martyr Church College in Oxford founded in 1249 by (between Becket Street & St Thomas COME AND VISIT THE MULTI William of Durham. Visit the Chapel Street, OX1 1PP – 2pm A guided walk AWARD-WINNING JOHN HENRY & it’s beautiful Van Linge hand painted around the church & the Castle with BROOKES BUILDING windows, Percy Shelley Memorial, our Liz Woolley, starting & ending at St 16th century Dining Hall & beautiful Thomas’. See the spaces that inspire our students, including our library and gardens. Enjoy tea, scones & pimms places to eat, open to the public all year round. An architectural tour – 10am This served all day. Garden tours every 30 insightful tour with Historian Malcolm minutes between 10am & 12noon, & Special Open Doors offer: Graham will invite you to see Oxford 2pm & 4pm. Pre-booked Cream Teas . Toasted teacake with butter - £1.00 from an alternative perspective. at 11am & 3pm (charges apply). D . Special seasonal September cake of Advanced booking required. the month - apple and berry cake - Wesley Memorial Methodist Church, History of Iffley – 11.30am A tour add a slice to any hot drink for £1.50 New Inn Hall Street, OX1 2DH - of Iffley village with Heritage expert . Buy two grande hot drinks and get the 10am to 5.30pm Visit the Church & Nick Worlledge. Not to be missed. third free. learn more about the history of the Advanced booking required. Available from Café Central, The Forum, John Henry Wesleys in Oxford. Sanctuary open. Brookes Building. Offer ends 30/09/2016. Please Music played during part of the day. D present this voucher when claiming.

3636 37 Proud supporters of Oxford Open Doors 2016

Mathews Comfort and Ecclesiastical are n Museums OLD PARSONAGE RESTAURANT & BAR delighted to support this event showcasing n Galleries the beautiful buildings of Oxford. Together, n Libraries we provide expertise and service excellence n Historical buildings to meet the insurance needs of exceptional properties. n Architecturally-designed buildings

Ecclesiastical and Mathews Comfort OPEN ALL DAY EVERY DAY Insurance Brokers wish you happy BREAKFAST exploring at Oxford Open Doors 2016. SET LUNCH To find out more visit: AFTERNOON TEA www.ecclesiastical.com COCKTAILS www.mathewscomfort.co.uk SUPPER Ecclesiastical Insurance Office plc (EIO) Reg. No. 24869. Ecclesiastical Insurance Group plc (EIG) Reg. No. 1718196. Ecclesiastical Life Ltd (ELL) Reg. No. 243111. E.I.O. Trustees Ltd Reg. No. 941199. All companies are registered in England at Beaufort House, Brunswick Road, Gloucester, GL1 1JZ, UK. EIO and ELL are authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. Mathews Comfort & Co Ltd are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Authorisation number 307605. www.oldparsonage-hotel.co.uk Registered address: 6 St Aldates, Oxford, OX1 1DL

38 39 Discover ... WHERE OXFORD BEGAN…

Enjoy an exciting journey back in time to experience a wealth of history and heritage mixed with a 21st century welcome.