NR No 29, known as Green House, was built SG EP for the idealist philosopher and liberal TH NORTH Green. A fellow of Balliol, he died a year ST GILES AND TO THE EAST EAST OF SPSJ St Philip and St James. The grand later, aged 45. NP&EL Nuclear Physics and Engineering BD Go through the gate opposite Keble, parish church for the new residential JT Radiohead were first signed to a Labs. Arup’s fan-shaped nuclear and turn right at TG Jackson’s joyously developments in north . Built by record label after a gig at the Jericho accelerator can be enjoyed for its purely inappropriate Electrical Laboratory (EL), GE Street (1860-6) in doctrinal Gothic Tavern in 1991; other bands local to the sculptural qualities, while the surfaces, with its garlanded centrepiece Revival, but it’s hard not to be impressed town include Ride and Supergrass. compared to Martin’s contemporary (1908-10). Following the route through by the scale and complete authority of RO The Radcliffe Observatory is arguably Brutalist work, are positively ornamental stodgy neo-Georgian, Hawkins Brown’s its execution. the most beautiful such building ever (1971-6) SG:BA Impressive late 17th-century design Biochemistry Department appears as an NME Suburban Gothic. An important constructed. A defining work of English MI Tastefully done modernist Maths explosion of colour. (Limited access) early example of the centrally planned Neoclassicism, it was built by Institute from 1964-6, following the one on the corner, set back a little for UM University Museum (1855-60). middle-class estate. William Wilkinson architectural showman James Wyatt in heights of adjacent medieval buildings, effect. Butterfield places the chapel’s Benjamin Woodward realizes Ruskin’s achieved a vocabulary of Venetian 1776-9, and adapts the recently and stepping its higher rear block back windows and decoration towards the architectural ideal here, especially in Gothic which produced impressive rediscovered Athenian Tower of the to emphasise the shape of the street as top to add to its height, while the terms of the craftsmanship of variety with consistency across 20 Winds for its top floor, decorating the it changes from St Giles to Banbury Road. interior is as awesome an experience as stone-carved foliage throughout the years of building (1860s-80s). EG rest with panels representing the zodiac. KQ MJP’s Kendrew Quad for St John’s one would expect. It also contains building. Inside is a vast glass and iron Bruton’s design for no 62 is one of the To Oxford’s shame, it is not a museum, College (2010) is the definitive current Holman Hunt’s The Light of the World in room, with naturalistic wrought-iron best, including a beautifully decorated or even accessible, but is the dining hall example of classy collegiate design. But a side chapel. (Limited access) decoration. Attached by an arcade on EP:UM A realization of Ruskin’s architectural ideal – University Museum SG:KQ Classy collegiate – Kendrew Quad doorway. and common room of a graduate juxtaposed with Ahrends Burton and K William Butterfield’s masterpiece, the south side is a chemistry laboratory, SC:SCC Ignoring every visual cliché of the Oxbridge college – St Catherine’s: dining hall SAC This concrete pavilion by Howell college, Green Templeton. Entry can be Koralek’s beautifully sculptural extension Keble College. Note the variety of modelled, in a stroke of genius, on the WS Killick Partridge and Amis ingeniously legally attempted via their porter’s lodge, to Keble (1970) on the other side of design all along this very long façade to Abbot’s Kitchen at Glastonbury. clad their building in a bronze designed contains St Antony’s College dining through the gates on Woodstock Road, Blackhall Road, it comes across as a the street, while the gatetower leads RH The is the first to weather. AREA room, kitchens, and common rooms. but the better view is from the path into little too flashy. one not into the centre of the main example of Oxford’s misbegotten Holywell Street O X F OR D MAP SB Budget was a major consideration for Zaha Hadid is building a Middle East the building site to the south, if one can SGH St Giles House, an exceptional quad, but the corner, extending its attempt to avoid modernism: the 38 Originally a music shop, Gillespie, St Barnabas, the parish church for Centre to the north which will be get past the security men. (Limited example of a town house façade from magnificent size. neo-Georgian ‘Cotswold’ style, with its Kidd and Coia’s building (1971-2) fits Using this guide Select the area on Public place/courtyard/walk Oxford’s working-class Jericho unmissable when completed in 2013. access) 1702, satisfyingly proportioned TPL William Morris saved these squared rubble walls with ashlar into the picturesque charm of Holywell the map who wish to explore, such as neighbourhood (1869-72): it cost £7300 SA Two massive curved residential BS A 10.5 acre building site, where throughout by Bartholomew Paisley, with cottages from destruction with an dressing, here coupled with Herbert Street by lowering the front with the St Algate’s, labelled SA. Refer to the Public monument/art compared to £50,000 for Keble Chapel. blocks for St Anne’s by Howell Killick Rafael Viñoly is masterplanning the a pediment and beautiful gateway. article in the Daily News: ‘in their way as Baker’s typically fussy classicism entrance down some steps. But go column headed SA for captions to Royal works But Arthur Blomfield smartly chose to Partridge and Amis (1968). If the four 'Radcliffe Observatory Quarter', the EC JRR Tolkein and CS Lewis met at the important as the more majestic (1926-9). Its legacy pervaded: see inside Wadham, and up the raised buildings etc. Numbers/letters refer to design with cheap materials in an SPSJ others had been built, this would have university's largest ever single Eagle and Child as part of the ‘Inklings’ buildings to which all the world makes Lanchester & Lodge’s Inorganic walkway in Back Quad, to look down house numbers/names or descriptors Church/chapel/church building unacademic Italian Romanesque style, been one of the wonders of 20th-century discussion group. pilgrimage’. Chemistry building opposite on South into the interior’s huge skylight, which emerges from the concrete like a Municipal building/museum/gallery avoiding comparison with the Oxford. 62 MH Behind Middleton Hall is an extension TR Set back beyond a garden, the end Parks Road (1954-60), among many lavish Gothic churches, and creating a 27, 29 Ideal home. Exceptionally NME by Benjamin Woodward with wonderful elevation of Jackson’s Trinity residential others in the Science Area. sublime crevasse. (Limited access). Commercial/retail premises unique landmark for the area. beautiful houses by JJ Stevenson in the cut-brick window surrounds (c.1858). block makes for a fine prospect from ZPL Zoology and Psychology Labs. 35 A large timber-framed house of development. Despite the protestations TWQ Thomas White Quadrangle. Walk the street (1883-7). Leslie Martin at his most bracingly 1626 stands out in mostly small-scale Place of education SP Unlike Cambridge, the Greek Revival Queen Anne style (1880-1): note the red didn’t make much impact here, except for brick contrasting with white wooden of design quango CABE, construction has along Lamb and Flag Passage to see the WHP The picturesque one-room White uncompromising, 1965-71. A brilliant Georgian Holywell Street. Place of entertainment the fine St Paul’s church by HJ windows and cornice, and self- begun on the depressingly characterless back of Oxford’s best 1970s residential Horse Pub, nestled between the large-scale design vocabulary, but HMR Holywell Music Room, the first Underwood (1836). Herzog & de consciously ‘meaningless’ decoration. > Mathematics Institute, with a similar complex, by Arup Associates. The buildings of Blackwells. stunted without its planned expansion purpose-built concert hall in Britain Sports centre Woodstock Rd Meuron are building a new School of Humanities Division to follow. “Martin, precast concrete frame comes down B Oxford’s principal bookshop Blackwell, westwards, and covered in grey box (1742-8). Haydn performed here when he came to Oxford for an honorary Mansion/large private house Government to open next door in 2015. SAC thou shouldst be living at this over the wall in thin pairs of piloti tiptoes founded 1879, resides in a charming extensions. OUP Daniel Robertson’s impressive hour/Oxford hath need of thee!” that only engineers of genius could have 18th-century timber-framed house. M The interior grandeur of Champney’s degree in 1792. NR:SPSJ Street’s doctrinal Gothic Revival Private house: gabled/ungabled triumphal arch (1826-8) was a major achieved. NB New Bodleian. Giles Gilbert Scott’s Mansfield College can be seen from the 13 An early 17th-century stone house. NR BA EP Warren’s Balliol building of 1907 much maligned library extension is gate on the road, which is in fact the Laboratory/printing works influence on the Ashmolean. WS Wellington Square. Taste in transition: stands out with its pediment, dark yellow actually a classic of deferentiality, main entrance (1887-9). Work of engineering/public utility Leslie Martin and David Owers’s stone and impressive late 17th-century keeping the line of Broad Street and UC A pod-like University Club with a jolly modernist block forms the north end of design. Also his is the equally good turning the corner with a double curve, mohawk skylight, built for academics Notable personality the square (1973-6), while the rest is the range with pedimented projections the low front bowing to the Clarendon and technical staff by JBKS Architects Viewing point Victorian housing saved by the nascent further south. building opposite. The Cotswold stone (2004). conservationist movement. Banbury Road SMM The south aisle of St Mary evokes the buried hoard of manuscripts KME One of the best recent buildings in SSB The magnificent new entrance to Magdalen was added around 1330, within. Built in 1937-40, the general Oxford, built as an extension of TG SA Somerville by Niall McLaughlin (2011) NR:SAC Duct-shaped centre making the church wider than it is long, consensus on its failure led to Jackson’s King’s Mound by Hawkins channels Louis Kahn, as well as Phillip but providing much flowing window tracery. subsequent decades’ less qualified Brown in 2009. Taking the shape of N 19 cm to 1 km/12 inches to 1 mile Dowson's adjacent Wolfson Building (WB) KC A sublime, towering monolith greets > embrace of modernism. Jackson’s facades, the architects then > TS:EC Reimagination of Sainte Chapelle WS:SB Landmark WS:SSB Magnificent EP:13 Early house EP:KME Bronzed SC:SCB Monumental horizontality Radcliffe Observatory Quarter 27, 29 BS break for George Gilbert Scott who BS SC would dominate the movement for the BEAUMONT STREET AREA next 40 years. ST CROSS AND NEARBY The most impressive residential street in CO Small but very inventive office Parks Road SCB Leslie Martin’s masterpiece, the St the city, an upscale equivalent in quality designed for the council by JG Fryman RO Cross Building is an interlocking to Holywell Street to its east. Laid out in (1966-7) complex for the English, Law and 1828 and completed in the 1840s, the W A single unit comprising Worcester Economics departments (1961-4). It’s Georgian grandeur of Bath is belatedly College’s library, hall and chapel the best realisation of his house style: imported to Oxford. Nos 35 and 36 are designed by George Clark of All Souls in JT EP:UM Ruskinian prominent wide external stairs, strip windows and a monumental horizontality. among those with beautiful Regency the early 18th-century. The abstracted NR:RO Athenian ironwork balconies. classicism of the central broken HC Walter Pater, Kenneth Grahame and A&T Ashmolean and Taylorian. Arguably pediment reveals the designer’s Kenneth Tynan are buried in Holywell the finest classical building in Oxford, by consultation of Hawksmoor. The chapel SG:TWQ Thin piloti NP&EL NR:27,29 Ideal home EP:RH Fussy classicism Cemetery, by St Cross Church CR Cockerell, 1839-45. Two buildings, (to the north) was lavishly redecorated BD SCC St Catherine’s College (1960-4) is two main facades, but unity through an by William Burges in 1864, his only work EL Science EP:BD Chromatic fins the only building Arne Jacobsen Area attached order that flexibly articulates in Oxford. (Limited access) SP SSB Keble Road KC completed in Britain during his lifetime, Walton Street them. Classical sculpture contributes S Built as a boys’ school by Leonard K and Oxford’s only international Keble College beauty to the academic wit. But Stokes (1898), hence the inventive masterpiece. It's also refreshingly SG:KC Rich surface polychromy ZPL Romanticism too, in the architect’s picturesque façade with bay windows accessible to the public: face south Pitt Rivers characteristic arches pushing up for classrooms but side storeys with low towards the long pond and lawn, turn Blackhall Road Oxford Canal, –1790 right to the circular bike shed, and follow through heavy entablature. Up the stairs roofs to screen noise from the market. Jericho OUP WB MI inside the door of the Taylorian passage A wonderful little Arts and Crafts Great Clarendon Street UM the river along until a left turn through NI:FB Mindbending spatial gymnastics the west wing leads into the magnificent is one of the world’s great library survival. KQ spaces. (Limited access) GG People think postmodernism was central open space. SG: NP&EL Labs SL Completed in 2001, Robert Adam’s dead by the 90s; in fact in survived in entranceway to the beyond is a miniature Doric temple that Albion Little Clarendon St Beatnik Wellington Parks Road draws on the discoveries in Greece of SB SGH South Parks Road CR Cockerell, the adjacent Ashmolean’s St Giles’s WS Museum Road EP:UC Pod-like architect. low-budget everyday form like this EP:M Picturesque Gothic mixed-use development, Gloucester ICCBS Van Heyningen & Haward’s WS Square MH SG RH Ioannou Centre for Classical and Green (1990), a testament to the style’s WS:OUP Triumphal arch motif TWQ M Mansfield EC College Mansfield Road UC Byzantine Studies (2008) squeezes in EP SCB between the Ashmolean and some listed facades, but it opens out to a calm atrium rising to a sloping wooden roof. (Limited access) Manor Road SH:PL Neo-Georgian R The Randolph, a typically stonking St John’s Street Pusey Street 19th-century grand hotel, built by William Wilkinson (1864). The influence BS:S Picturesque survival St Cross of Oxford’s later Professor of Fine Art BS:CO Inventive WS:WS Transition Beaumont Pl SC John Ruskin is evident in the choice of HC SCC BS:W Abstracted classicism CO BS:A&T Romance and classicism, with wit Venetian Gothic, and the enjoyable Walton Street Holywell Cemetery naturalistic carving on such details as capacity for cheering up housing, shops KME ICCBS St Cross Road the underside of the end-bay oriel and a bus station with polychromy and Ashmolean TS:ST Wren’s first building TS:RC Baroque camera windows. jaunty skylines. Jowett Walk SL Taylorean MM A pious rebuke to the pagan USO The university surveyor converted language of the exactly contemporary this into their official office in 1956. A&T BA 36-35 SH:Q Vigorous range Ashmolean, the Martyr’s Memorial The top floor projection is a hoist to Castle Mill Strm BS SH:AS Towering Baroque 38 HMR 35 13 dedicated to the Anglican bishops bring in grain. Beaumont Street MM Balliol Holywell Street Trinity College NB Plans derived from out-of-copyright Ordnance Survey executed by Mary I is the first statement R Magdalen St E HL mapping, updated using original material. W TR Blackwell of mainstream Gothic Revival in Oxford. Pl Bath TT www.flaneurguides.com B Built in 1841-2 it also marks the first big SMM Town Wall, early C13 TPL WHP Fold back on itself to reduce size of map BH:SBS Fit for a Persion emperor S BH:MM Rebuke H CB New EP:HMR Hall TS:CB Muscular essay Magdalen St BS Broad Street MHS ST Magdalen Grove College Lane OUTLIERS Bodlian Library Hertford NC New NI BH College BS:GG Jaunty BL SQ H College GG Waterstones DS P NEAR THE ISIS To the west BEYOND HYTHE BRIDGE 32 EC SH St George’s Pl George’s St QL MA Over the wall one can see a sundial, St Frideswide

SBS The Said Business School, named Turl Street Hythe George Street SMNG Ship Street Radcliffe part of a Magdalen auditorium by Bike: Follow Botley Road under the after billionaire Syrian arms broker Wafic Bridge VH College Square contemporary classicist Demetri railway and over the River Thames; soon Said. Dixon Jones’s luxuriously serene Brasenose Lane All Souls PL SPE Porphyrios (1994-8). on left side. building certainly looks fit for a Persian Railway SBS 26-28 RC Q Station AS Queen’s ML Magdalen library, a handsome This riverside church of 1870-2 never emperor, complete with ziggurat and a Cornmarket Street MA Hythe Bridge Street HF St Michael’s Street BGT College former boys’ junior school by JC Buckler had its spire built, but the result, almost huge outdoor amphitheatre. The external TS (1849-51). entirely buttress, gains in an atmosphere walls are designed to easily wash off Brasenose CS:VH Vanbrughian Queen’s Lane SSB St Swithun’s Buildings, Magdalen. entirely characteristic of its architect, that graffiti protests against arms dealing. New Inn Hall St UL Market Street College CH QG Gothic Revival design was never most haunting and mysterious of the Sophisticated and corporate, it’s a true Botley Road SMV executed with more refinement and Gothic Revivalists, SS Teulon. image of 21st century Oxford to greet Tidmarsh Lane S SH:BS Venetian CS BN High Street invention than it is here, by Bodley and those arriving by train. NT GC TS:S Satyrs New Road ASC O 83-84 ML SSB Garner (1880-4). To the south CCOB Christ Church Old Buildings. ES LB King Edw. St MT Magdalen Tower (1492-1509), from Motz House Extremely progressive social housing CM Magpie Lane USO Castle Mound CH High Street the top of which a choir sings to greet Bike: Iffley Road, right at Chester from 1866-7, with self-contained flats Alfred St OUP GS EH the sun on the first of May. Street, follow the left turn at end, containing all the residents’ basic CT Bookshop 126 G Nicholas Stone’s gateway (1632-3) is right at Bedford street; last on necessities. HS:MC First chapel the right. The great Hungarian IR An early work by Nicholas Grimshaw Bear Lane Oriel St MT architect Erno Goldfinger designed this (1984), an ice rink in the ‘High-tech’ style. CH:NT Inventive spire Queen St ML CH TH small, low budget don’s house (1964). The technical challenge here is to build TB CCOB OC HS Merton Street Note the connecting walkway, recalling on poor foundations: most of the roof’s Oriel G Street PQ River Cherwell (Isis) those of his definitive tower Blue Boar St College Line of Town Wall weight is carried by the beam which St Algate’s CQG Magdalen Paradise Street Castle blocks. projects out of the front, supported by HS:O Rhodes Bridge BH CS:UL Hall MC Merton College FB two 30 metre high masts. This also SA:13- Composed MAO HS:83-84 Botanic Garden allows for a vast front window through MQ NI which one can watch the skaters inside. Outlier: Haunting ediface SA Grove

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Old Greyfriars St CCPG Merton covered in panels of mossy CS the North Gate was more for defence Line of Town Wall 13-14 Place than worship, standing on the vermiculation, either to anticipate the CORNMARKET STREET AND NEARBY contemporary northern town wall. R Christ Church Botanic Gardens beyond, or just to revel F St Clement’s St VH This extraordinary small façade of 26-28 Although mendaciously restored in classical oddities for their own sake. TT Merton Field Paradise Square SW 1721, known as Vanbrugh House, draws with a new window on the corner and Turn Again Lane CCC HS:CCC First spire TS:BGT Panels F An often overlooked little fountain by Brewer Street Cowley Rd on grand Baroque elements of Blenheim carving above, the fundamental EP Warren (1899). Iffley Rd Palace for its huge pilasters and structure of these buildings has survived CH FB Queen’s College Florey Building. projecting cornice, and is attributed to from a large Inn built in 1386. Although it’s in a sad state of repair, this its first resident, a mason who had GC Golden Cross. Escape Cornmarket UFO from Planet James Stirling still Rose Place Street for this medieval courtyard with a takes the breath away with its worked on the palace for its architect BH:CCOB All necessities mindbending spatial gymnastics, while John Vanbrugh. 15th-century inn on the north side, and a Albion Place Christchurch Meadow UL The Oxford Union has recently been passage through to the covered market. A420 SA OP the mad little weathervane in the middle St Algate’s anticipates the goofiness of his LB Lloyds Bank buildings are often of Cowley Place placed under absurdly high security, but 83 SH:QG Magnificent gateway postmodern phase. Completed in 1971, have a look through the gate on St architectural interest, and they don’t get CH:GS For Girls NT:83 Dark shop NT HS:CQG Doric screen Michael’s Street to see the wonderful much more fun than this work of 1901. Oxford’s vocal philistines ensured the Debating Room by Benjamin Woodward Designed by Stephen Salter, high on a IR architect’s subsequent decade of (1856-67), with its steep roof. It was particularly strong strain of Jackson and inactivity in Britain. sympathetically extended by Wilkinson to Hare’s Jacobethan. SH St Hilda’s Garden Building. the east after Woodward’s premature CT Carfax Tower, part of the CC Alison and Peter Smithson death. demolished church of St Martin. 19th- rein in their brutalist hardcore SH 32 Grand Edwardian classicism, the century plans failed to turn the retained for a modest accomodation block Ionic columns conceal a steel frame. 14th-century tower into a monument of with distinctive timber-framed facades SMNG The oldest building in Oxford civic pride, but it’s still a symbolic social (1968-70). (Limited access, via St (c.1000-50), the tower of St Michael at landmark for the town against the gown. Hilda’s Porter’s Lodge) NT:IH Little fortress HS:TH Jacobethan excess CS:26-28 Old inn NT:CH Plasticity HS:126 C17 oriels TS:SMV Baroque twists TS:BL P Borrowed Gothic panelling HS:ES Illustrations of exam Thames River Cherwell Street (Isis) CH SA HS clerestory above (visible outside). The walls rather than in cases. It was begun S Two gold satyrs cock a snook at St tower, however, is 13th-century early in 1610, the year Thomas Bodley made Mary the Virgin opposite. COUNTY HALL AREA ST ALGATE’S AND TO THE WEST HIGH STREET AND TO THE SOUTH Gothic, and the first of Oxford’s spires. an agreement with the Stationers’ SMV St Mary the Virgin. The parish HF TH Green founded this former boys’ MAO Modern Art Oxford is in a former TH An irresistible display of Jacobethan CQG A Doric triumphal arch for Christ Company to receive a copy of every church of Oxford has architecture to high school (now the History Faculty), brewhouse storeroom, but adapted with excess, built as the Town Hall by Henry Church by James Wyatt (1773-83). FB book printed. With typical Oxford match its prominence. The tower is designed by TG Jackson (1880-1). pedigree: towards Pembroke Street by T Hare (1893-7). If admiring the façade Beyond and to the right The Peckwater River Thames Folly Bridge conservatism, the façade was copied especially exciting, proceeding fairly NT The inventively shaped Nuffield Gillespie, Kidd and Coia (1986), and across a busy bus lane becomes Quadrangle (PQ) is one of the finest from the east front of the Divinity soberly in the c.1280 section, and then Tower by Austen Harrison (1939) is bold towards St Ebbe’s by dRMM (2010). The frustrating, head inside for more of the classical ensembles anywhere in the School, with the panelling relentlessly erupting in elongated pinnacles and plain, possibly modernising All original spaces can still be discerned in same, or through the picturesque side world, by the amateur Dean Aldrich IH repeated along. (Limited access) decorated with gables, identified as Saints. It stands in opposition to the the rooms displaying contemporary art. entrance (to the Museum of Oxford). (1707-14). (Limited access). To the left SQ The Schools Quadrangle, built for 1310s by its comprehensive use of NT:CC Former car showroom TS:BN Foliaged Brasenose Outlier: Motz House SH:HL Cornered gauche Cotswold style (ashlar walls; high 13-14 Pembroke Street. A strongly 126 Above street level is an (CCPG) Powell and Moya created one of university teaching, with the department ornamental ball-flowers. Nicholas tiled roofs) demanded for the rest of the NT composed four storey house of 1641, exceptionally beautiful late 17th-century the most attractive small spaces in TS names above the doors, the library Stone’s south Porch is the other SH front bar is the oldest part; the pub is college by its conservative founder. with the upper half projecting on two façade with a distinctive olive colour. Oxford with this submerged Christ above, and originally a public art gallery highlight, a baroque display of twisting also the site of Bill Clinton’s inhalation OC Oxford Castle. Following 1066, NEAR THE THAMES canted bays below, and a heavy TB The Bear, an early 17th-century pub Church Picture Gallery (1967-8). (Paid TURL STREET AND NEARBY on the third floor (1613-24). The inner columns supporting a densely decorated SOUTH OF HOLYWELL STREET non-event. Norman knights established their R The Gothic Revivalist GE Street designed pediment over the door. Diagonally which notably features an enormous entry) H Thirteen 17th-century heads known as face of the gatetower incongruously and segmental arch. HL The current History Library was NC Oxford’s first gatehouse was built at assumed authority with castles; all that this rectory when he was only 18. opposite is a Georgian house with nicely collection of school and sports ties. MC The earliest of the large college the ‘emperors’. Their current incarnation pedantically educates us on the five CH Oxford’s first Congregation House designed by Basil Champneys for the New College around the time of the survives of Oxford’s is the threateningly CH Edwin Lutyens’s only Oxford work, decorative wooden porches. O 17th-century-style façade to an chapels is that of Merton, begun in was carved in the 1970s. classical orders, from Tuscan to was attached to St Mary’s church training of Indian civil servants (1882-4). Peasant’s Revolt in 1381, hence its stark and vengeful St George’s Tower of the Jesuit college Campion Hall, was SW The different heights here best accommodation building at Oriel by Basil 1290, and containing some of the finest ST Wren’s first building (1663-9), the Composite on the rising storeys. (1320-7). It now houses a café. Hence the lion, buffalo, tiger and influential fortified quality, as well the 1071 on the bank of the river. The huge built very late in his career (1935-7). The reveal the pitched top section which Champneys (1908-11). The suited gent examples of the period’s style. The four Sheldonian Theatre was a prodigy to say RC A Baroque dream team. One of the BN Jackson’s Brasenose façade is a elephant carved on the street corner. good surveillance from the warden’s mound by New Road was for a last- streetfront is an austere essay in identifies the old town’s south wall high above is imperialist diamond miner tracery designs on the seven windows the least. Its facade (toward the divinity world’s greatest library buildings, the masterpiece of dense Gothic detailing, H Jackson on the gatehouse to Hertford lodging in the room over the door. resort defence of the castle. contrived irregularity, but there is (1226-40). Cecil Rhodes, absurdly placed between facing the street, each a complex and school) may be somewhat inchoate, but was designed by especially the foliage above each of the has the same indiscriminate fun with PL Provost’s lodgings built for Queen’s CH John Plowman’s neo-Norman County plasticity above as the shape of the the twisting columns of the Temple of the beautiful articulation and carving on James Gibbs to an original idea by seven oriel windows, and Oxford’s most Palladio’s Venetian windows and first College by Raymond Erith, bearer of the Hall is a friendly contrast to the authentic chapel becomes visible on the corner. Solomon. the sides and north doorway justify the Nicholas Hawksmoor and completed in entertaining gargoyles (1886-9). floor order that he was having neo-Georgian flame, in 1958-9. A display Norman next door, decorated and SA Built for the Salvation Army by JG 83, 84 A Jewish entrepreneur opened building’s fame. The current 1749. Above the studiously plain ground ASC All Saints Church, a masterpiece of elsewhere in Oxford with the vocabulary of the technique involved in elegantly symmetrical (1840-1). Fryman in 1970-1. A subtle gem made ’s first coffee house in 1651 on 19th-century lantern is larger than the floor, the exterior of the library’s main English Baroque by the brilliant amateur of the English Renaissance (1887-9). articulating a prominent rear side, with GS An elegant girls’ school by Leonard up of satisfyingly blobby brick shapes the site of this grand building, with original, and provides a view of the city. reading room is articulated on the Dean Aldrich (1701-10). The tower is AS People have been complaining since loosely tapering rustication, and the Stokes with Arts and Crafts touches and with unusual fenestration. Venetian window and pilasters. CB The monumental restraint of exterior with Gibbs’s characteristic light especially inventive, rusticated and the first design that All Souls’s towers lower edges of triglyphs peeping from consistently imaginative detailing (1901). OP The splendid external plasterwork of ES Exam Schools. The first example of Hawksmoor’s Clarendon Building for the touch: paired Corinthian columns either square; at the top a recessed rotunda are too grand for a college, but they beneath the cornice. WSC The monumental Westgate Shopping this merchant’s house, known as the Old the style that later dominated Oxford, (1711-15) must side of alternating niches and windows. and tiny spire. need to be understood as Hawksmoor’s SPE St Peter in the East, a church Centre and its car park to the south Palace (1622-8), faces onto Rose Place Jacobethan, and the work of the man be considered in the context of his BGT The beautiful panelling up Brase- CM The covered market was laid out, early 18th-century, characteristically revised and rebuilt throughout the dominate the whole of this area (1969). rather than the main road. most identified with it, TG Jackson urban plan, leading on an axis through to nose gate tower dates from 1512. with its long pedimented façade to the elemental interpretation of the Gothic medieval era. Look to the top of the 83 The inspiration for the little dark shop HS:CQG PQ Finest classical ensemble (1876-82). Look above the entrance on HS:CCC Gothic meets Romanesque the Radcliffe Camera via the archways of High Street, by John Gwynn in 1773-4, vocabulary. For the rest, he is an early west front to see an intricately carved where Alice purchases Humpty Dumpty the High Street to see carved exquisite play of triangles and circles, the schools quadrangle. Nevertheless, although the pleasantly spacious height conservationist, extending the existing quatrefoil border with occasional in Alice Through the Looking Glass. illustrations of an exam, and go into are of the ‘Geometric’ period of it’s a wonderfully muscular essay in of the interior is the result of late chapel into a new hall, and then grotesque heads, running around the CC This crown court was originally an Merton Street to see the magnificent Decorated Gothic. classical detailing in its own right. 19th-century rebuilding. reflecting both to create a library on the entire building. From the gate to the impressive car showroom with ambitions open quad. On the corner is Jackson’s MQ Visible over the hedge in Merton BL EC George Gilbert Scott’s Exeter Chapel north side. churchyard one can see the south of classical grandeur, by HW Smith extension of 1887 in a loose Gothic style. Grove is the west range of Mob Quad, DS The core of the university was built (1854-60) reimagines Paris’s Sainte BS One of Oxford’s many impostors, porch, and the nave’s charmingly (1932-3). EH EP Warren's Eastgate Hotel arguably the oldest collegiate quad in from around 1420 and opened in 1488. Chapelle to create what would probably this Bridge of Sighs was created by TG haphazard window arrangement. FB Lewis Carroll first told the tale of (1899-1900) is a essay in the local Oxford or Cambridge. This range dates Below is the Divinity School, originally remain his greatest work. Its power is Jackson in 1913. A quotation of a Q Opposite St Peter in the East is the Alice in Wonderland to the family of Alice 18th-century style, while his long range from c.1373-8 and contains Oxford’s for lectures on theology: see William almost all to do with scale, fitting one of quotation (St John’s College back of Queen’s, a vigorous range of Liddell on a boat trip in 1862 which opposite (nos 49-52), containing oldest surviving library. Orchard's vault, with its extraordinary Oxford’s tallest chapels into one of its Cambridge’s bridge), with the Venetian 1671-2 with which Wren may have been began by Folly Bridge. Below is the River Waterfield's Booksellers, does the same ML Don’t let it fool you for a second: pendent bosses. (Outside, the northern tightest sites. It went up as Morris and reference switched from the Doge’s involved (and of which no part survives Thames, but this section passing for the Tudor era (1901). Basil Champneys built this Jacobethan door was inserted in 1669 and may be Burne-Jones were undergraduates at the Palace to an absurdly squashed Rialto: inside the college). through Oxford is known as the Isis. TT Tom Tower. Wren, for his last work at warden’s lodging, now Merton’s library, by Wren). Above is the manuscripts college. such self-consciousness can only be QG Queen’s Gateway. Never have the IH Isis House, completely unique, and Oxford, completed an unfinished in 1908. In the same year Adolf Loos reading room, known as Duke Humfrey's MHS Thomas Wood’s building (1679-83) called postmodern. excluding walls of an Oxford college uniquely loveable, this little fortress was gateway with this ogee dome over an wrote Ornament and Crime, and the Library: with the original bequest was the original home of the Ashmolean QL Queen’s and New College Lane. provided so much of their own visual built by an eccentric accountant for octagonal lantern, in keeping with the Viennese polemicist could have been obliterated by Edward VI, it became the bequest, and is now the Museum of the Oxford’s most evocative walk snakes interest than this magnificently himself in 1848. The side to Folly Bridge college, but brilliantly original (1681-2). thinking of nonsense like this, pompous site of the new Bodleian Library from History of Science. The highlight is the around the rough back walls of various articulated display of rustication and is only a bay wide, but displays great CCC Christ Church Cathedral was built and oversized where TG Jackson’s 1602. (Limited access) rich carving above the eastern colleges and even under a bridge (from niches. But Hawksmoor’s masterstroke invention with coloured raised bricks. at the fascinating transition from Jacobethan is playful and absurdist. P The Proscholium. A vestibule for the entranceway. 1676). is the open rotunda above with a statue The river façade runs along the edge of Romanesque to Gothic at the end of the hall and an extension to the library TT Reach the Turf Tavern through an of Queen Caroline (1734). the island with a charming canopied 12th-century, with giant round arches in above, where books were for the first alley between New College Lane and balcony. the nave, and pointed arches in the > time in England arranged against the > Holywell Street. The low 17th-century BH:IR Lightweight ‘High-tech’ ice rink HS:TT Brilliantly original Tom Tower HS:ML Pompous and oversized FL Â NEUR GUIDE