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Welcome... From the OPT Team ... Page 3 – A message from the OPT Team Page 14 – Friday 7 Sept Page 5 – Highlights - Extraordinary People Pages 16, 23, & 42 – OPT – what we do Open Doors 2018 is here. We’ve put together a packed Page 6 – OPT venues Page 17 – Saturday 8 Sept programme for you to enjoy, and with this year’s Page 7 – OPT member events Pages 24, 25 & 26 – Family Trail Page 9 – Highlights – Family Fun Page 35 – Sunday 9 Sept theme of Oxford and its Pages 10 & 11 – Oxford Brookes University Pages 46 & 47 – Map information ‘extraordinary people’ Page 13 – Thursday 6 Sept " there’s lots to share. Red – OPT venues, FF – Family friendly, R – Refreshments available, D – Disabled access, (D) – Partial disabled access We look forward to For more specific information on disabled access please contact OPT or the venue. seeing you over the * All activities listed are free of charge (there may be charges for refreshments and weekend. other activities not listed here). * Venues are listed alphabetically by day and on Sat/Sun are divided into Morning, Afternoon or All Day with Walks listed separately. Oxford Preservation Trust run Oxford Open Doors * Venues are listed with street name and postcode. A location map of all venues is available in partnership with Oxford University on our website. * Information is available from the OPT Hub in Cornmarket across the weekend. " “The University is widely accessible throughout the Booking... year, but we welcome the opportunity Oxford Open * Some activities must be pre-booked. Bookings open at 12 noon on 21 August, via our Doors provides to open more of our buildings, grounds website www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk or as indicated. and collections to new visitors. We look forward to * Check for changes & new additions at www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk to help you plan welcoming you to the University to learn more about your weekend. our institution and its people.” * Members of the public take part in Oxford Open Doors at their own risk. Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult. Professor , For further information call 01865 242918 or email Vice-Chancellor of the [email protected]

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Start your weekend by visiting us with their exhibition ‘The Road Behind, Oxford Open Doors 2018 The Road Ahead’ – not to be missed! at the OPT Hub in Cornmarket for all you need to know. The list is endless... so for more Mathews Comfort insurance brokers and n Museums details check individual listings Ecclesiastical Insurance are delighted to n Galleries There can’t be a place in Oxford that and keep up to date by visiting support this event showcasing the beautiful does not have a connection with n Libraries www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk buildings of Oxford. Together, we provide someone ‘Extraordinary’! n Educational establishments to finish the weekend off, join us at expertise and service excellence to meet the On Saturday visit the Weston Library insurance needs of exceptional properties. n Historical and contemporary 4pm on Sunday for a concert with buildings to discover Tolkien with an exhibition and activities throughout the day or the Pavlova Wind Quintet at the visit The Kilns, the former home of Sheldonian Theatre. C S Lewis. At the Museum of the History of Don't Miss the University of Oxford Science see displays of remarkable Community Fair at Somerville College women in science and go behind the on Saturday!! scenes at the New Theatre to discover celebrities who have trodden the boards. Across the weekend don’t miss The Painted Room visited by Shakespeare and once the office of Sir John Betjeman, and learn more of Kings and Queens at & Prison and the colourful characters who were imprisoned within its walls. To find out how Mathews Comfort and For displays and exhibitions Ecclesiastical can help please call celebrating the famous and Mathews Comfort on 01865 208000. well-known visit any of www.mathewscomfort.com the Colleges and Halls and don’t miss the Cloisters at www.ecclesiastical.com New College featured in Harry Potter.

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Friday 7 Sept OPT out and about Oxford Preservation Trust The RIBA Lecture, Mansfield OPT College, Mansfield Road, Members Only Events OX1 3TF – 4.30pm ‘Inside over the weekend Out, Outside In’ – Stuart Oxford Castle & Prison is open throughout the weekend Cade, Director at MICA *free of charge Saturday & Sunday (see pages 29 & 40). Monday 3 Sept (formerly Rick Mather Visit us at the OPT Hub in Cornmarket, a stones The Painted Rooms, 3 Cornmarket & 118 Architects) will talk about *throw from Carfax. High Street – 2.30pm See not one but two rare their work across Oxford. Take in the (open Saturday and Sunday Elizabethan wall paintings. Painted Room Please book via the website, 10am to 4pm (see page 30 & 40) and be the first to see the Tuesday 4 Sept *medieval wall paintings with panelling removed. email OPT Awards Winners Tour (2017) – 2pm A info@oxfordpreservation. unique chance to see some amazing Oxford The LMS Swingbridge, Rewley Road opens org.uk or call 01865 242918. *(Saturday 1 - 3pm see page 18 & walk Sat 11am & buildings with Architect John Stevenson. Sun 2pm pages 34 & 41) hear about the last chance Nuneham Park, Nuneham Courtenay, OX44 MANSFIELD COLLEGE to save Oxford’s industrial heritage. 9PG – 6pm A rare chance to visit the Carfax Enjoy our newly restored 17th Century cottages at Conduit, and see the gardens and church. *8-10 Turn Again Lane, just behind the Westgate. Wednesday 5 Sept open Sat 11am Jesus College, Turl Street, OX1 3DW – 2pm A Iffley Glebe Field, Church Way, OX4 4EJ 90 YEARS OF *- 4.30pm (see page 32 for details of this and other special tour with Archivist, Robin Darwall-Smith. Iffley places). Gin tasting, 10 Turn Again Lane, OX1 1QL – 6.30pm See the newly restored exterior of the OPT office and enjoy some gin courtesy of TOAD, The Oxford Artisan Distillery. Thursday 6 Sept Open Top Bus Tour – 10.30am Join City Sightseeing Oxford for a tour of our glorious city. New College, New College Lane, OX1 3BN – 2.30pm Tour this magnificent College, including rare items from the collections.

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parsonage grill Some fun for the family Follow the Family Trail to discover an ‘Extraordinary Person’ – see page 24 for more…

Great picnic places * Christ Church Meadows, St Aldates * Iffley Glebe Field * Oxford Castle Quarter (the Exercise Yard) * South Parks, Headington OPEN ALL DAY EVERY DAY BREAKFAST SET LUNCH * , South Parks Road AFTERNOON TEA COCKTAILS SUPPER www.parsonagegrill.co.uk A few favourites!

Tour Oxford Castle & Prison, scale the Mound and meet the *Archaeologists - Sat & Sun Oxford’s neighbourhood restaurant & bar Discover Tolkien at the Weston Library with fun *activities - Sat Meet the firemen at Rewley Road Fire Station - Sat & Sun *Enjoy a vintage bus ride around the city - Sat *Visit Christ Church on Sat and enjoy Magdalen College *on Sun Open all day every day from brunch until late. Weekday express lunch 2 courses £13.95 Check out the venue listings and our website for more details and look out for FF for Family Friendly venues. www.gees-restaurant.co.uk

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9 September 2018, 10.00am – 5.00pm Headington Campus

Join us on Sunday 9 September to learn more about our history and tour our award-winning buildings.

This year we’ll be showcasing the redeveloped Clerici building, the latest phase in our estates investment programme.

See the Sir Hall, a new, flexible teaching and event space named in honour of this key figure in the University’s history, alongside the impressive and modernised former campus main reception.

Our campuses are open to the public all year round and you can visit our cafes for coffee or to have lunch.

We hope to see you soon!

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Thursday welcomes you to 6 SEPT Oxford Open Doors 2018 Mill, Mill Street, OX2 0AN – 11am Tour Visit the restored mill and We are Oxford’s leading law firm experienced in dealing with marina, the remains of Osney Abbey built in 1410 and the Archimedes a wide range of commercial and personal matters for clients Screw that powers the site. Advanced throughout Oxfordshire. booking required. D Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, OX2 6DP – 10.30am & 2pm Tours OUP’s Museum OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS tracing over 500 years of University publishing, including the first edition of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and publication of the ‘Oxford English Dictionary’. Advanced booking required. D, R

Purchase our special OPT Oxford mugs... designed by Emma Bridgewater – special *available from our Hub PRICE in Cornmarket across FOR OPT the weekend. MEMBERS 01865 781 000 www.freeths.co.uk 12 www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk 1313 Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, OX2 6DP – 10.30am & 2pm Tours OUP’s Museum tracing over 500 years of University publishing, including the first edition of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Friday and publication of the ‘Oxford English Dictionary’. Advanced booking 7 SEPT required. D, R Saïd Business School, Park End Street, OX1 1HP – 12 noon to 1.30pm Bodleian Law Library, Manor Road, Tour A regular and popular choice in OX1 3UR – 3pm & 5pm Tours (also the Open Doors calendar. The award Sat) The largest law library in the UK, winning contemporary architecture, housed in a landmark modern building beautiful gardens and fascinating site by Leslie Martin and Colin St John history make this a tour not to be Wilson, completed in 1964 and now missed (no booking required). D, R listed as Grade II*. Advanced booking required. D

Cherwell Boathouse, 50 , OX2 6SS – 10am to 12 noon A celebration of the art of punting at this authentic Edwardian boathouse and long established fine dining restaurant on the . Test your punting skills with a free half hour trial with Boathouse staff onside to give expert tips and advice.

Osney Mill, Mill Street, OX2 0AN – 11am Tour Visit the restored mill and marina, the remains of Osney Abbey built in 1410 and the Archimedes Screw that powers the site. Advanced booking required. D BODLEIAN LAW LIBRARY

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Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford Preservation Trust Marston Road, OX3 0EE – 10am to 12.15pm This beautiful building blends architectural features of traditional brings you Saturday Oxford Colleges with forms and styles of the classical period of Islam. 40 minute tours. Advanced booking 8 SEPT required (via www.oxcis.ac.uk) (D), FF Private 20th Century Art Collection, Iffley – 11.30am Tour Works by Ben Nicholson, David Jones, Winifred Nicholson and other In the morning... 19th and 20th Century artists. Advanced Blackfriars Priory, St Giles, OX1 3LY booking required. – 10am to 1pm A Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford, a Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, community of over 20 Dominican South Parks Road, OX1 3RE – Tours Friars, and a centre for the study of at 10.30am & 11.30am Presentation theology and philosophy. (D), FF followed by a guided tour showing historical displays on the pioneering Bodleian Law Library, Manor Road, medical research done in the department, OX1 3UR – 11am Tour (also Fri) The especially in the development of Penicillin. largest law library in the UK, housed Advanced booking required. D, FF in a landmark modern building by Leslie Martin and Colin St John Wilson, completed in 1964 and now listed as Grade II*. Advanced booking required. D In the Afternoon... Alliance Francaise, St Margaret’s Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street, Institute, 1st Floor, 30 Polstead Road, OX1 3SD – 9am to 1pm Visit the oldest OX2 6TN – 12 noon to 4pm Test your Every year we put together a packed programme custom built concert hall in Europe. FF French level! Visit our welcoming classrooms, meet our teachers while Joinery, The Malthouse, Tidmarsh tasting some French wine and cheese. of Oxford's treasures for everyone to enjoy. Lane, OX1 1NQ – 10am to 1pm Gain Find the way to learn French that best an insight into the intricate workings suits you. Activities for children. FF, R all free of charge of the Estate Services Joiners, a " highly skilled and creative team Department of Chemistry, Chemistry that produces bespoke carpentry Research Laboratory, South Parks Road, and cabinet making work. Limited OX1 3TA – 2pm to 4pm ‘Chemistry and Follow us! " number for tours. (D), FF Cancer research: from Bench to Bedside.’ 16 www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk 1717 Saturday

Meet the scientists and tour the labs. Nuffield College, New Road, OX1 1NF Regent’s Park College, Pusey Street, Advanced booking required. D, FF, R – 12 noon to 4pm Explore our Grade II OX1 2LB – 12 noon & 2pm Tours listed Cotswold style buildings, our John Guided tour and exhibition of items Fairfield Residential Home, 115A Piper designed Chapel and outstanding rarely seen, including letters and Banbury Road, OX2 6LA – 2pm to 5pm contemporary art collection. Special manuscripts of non-conformist Our new building for 38 elderly people is displays about Lord Nuffield. Advanced women, intrepid female missionaries of contemporary design, nestled in the booking required for art tours (email and pioneering doctors. Advanced quiet tranquillity of the [email protected]).(D), FF booking required. FF Conservation Area. D, FF, R Old Fire Station, 40 George Street, Saïd Business School, Park End Healthfest 2018, Warneford Hospital, OX1 2AQ – 11am to 6pm ‘The Street, OX1 1HP – 12 noon to Warneford Lane, Headington, OX3 Road Behind, The Road Ahead’. 1.30pm Tour The award winning 7JX – 1pm to 5pm Welcome behind An exhibition of photographs and contemporary architecture, beautiful the walls of the Warneford, Oxford sound art reflecting experiences of gardens and fascinating site history Health NHS Foundation Trust during equality from a range of women across make this a tour not to be missed (no the 70th year of the NHS. Find out Oxfordshire. D, R booking required). D, FF, R more about the Trust’s services and other local organisations. (D), FF, R Old Road Campus Research St Sepulchre’s Cemetery, 80 Walton DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY Building, off Roosevelt Drive, OX3 Street, OX2 6EA – 2pm to 4pm Hogacre Common Eco Park, 47a 7DQ – 12.30pm to 3pm Learn about Awarding winning hidden place Whitehouse Road, OX1 4QH – 12 our cutting-edge research into cancer, providing a green space and tranquillity of the amazing stories of the people noon to 5pm An ecological haven infectious diseases and drug discovery off busy . Self-guided tour involved in the early railways that comprising meadow, trees - young through hands-on family-friendly showing memorials of local notables. (D) shaped our city. FF and mature, OxGrow Community activities. See real life laboratories with garden, bee hives, orchard, forest St Thomas the Martyr, Becket Street, Museum of the History of Science, a DNA extraction robot in action and school area, and former sports OX1 1PP – 12 noon to 4pm Exhibition Broad Street, OX1 3AZ – 12 noon fluorescent fish under the microscope pavilion with café. FF, R to celebrate the centenary of the birth to 5pm See displays on remarkable (>16yr). D, FF, R of Olive Gibbs. Twice Lord Mayor of women in science, and join a tour Holywell Cemetery, St Cross Road, Festival, Aristotle Oxford and achieving much else in at 12.30pm or 1.15pm to discover OX1 3LZ – 2pm to 4pm Guided walks Lane Recreation Ground, OX2 6TP local and national politics. D, FF intricate Islamic instruments, Einstein’s to look at graves of interest both for the – 12 noon to 6pm The Festival will blackboard and the first cultures of the geology of the gravestones and about provide canal boat and canoe trips, Woods, Sawmill Yard, life-saving antibiotic Penicillin. (D), FF famous Oxford people buried here. guided tours of the towpath and the Wytham, OX2 8QQ – 2pm Tour Live music weather permitting. (D), FF Bequeathed by the Ffennell family to The North Wall Arts Centre, South Trap Ground. The Recreation Ground the University in 1942. Learn about the Parade, OX2 7JN – 12 noon to 5pm will host musical performances, LMS Swingbridge, Rewley Road, family and scientific work that has been Tours of the award winning auditorium many events for children, the Canal OX1 2RQ – 1pm to 3pm Come and undertaken within the Woods. 2 hour and building – plus drop-in activities Olympics, local food stalls and a dog find out more about OPT’s latest leisurely walk with the Conservator. for all the family. Join us at 5pm for our show. D, FF, R project which will see the 1851 Advanced booking required. FF bridge swing again and share some Autumn 2018 launch. D, FF, R

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Balliol College, Broad Street, OX1 open Inamori Forum, enjoy the roof Church of St Alban the Martyr, 3BJ – 10am to 4pm Founded in terrace and a coffee in our café. Open Charles Street, OX4 3AH – 10am to All day... 1263, explore the rich history and the for self-guided tours and pre-booked 4pm 1930’s church in Italianate style. A-Plan Insurance, 107 High Street, extraordinary people associated with short talks. Hear about our work to Interior influenced by the Arts and OX1 4DA – 8am to 2pm Discover what the College. See the splendid gardens, support better government and public Crafts movement. 14 carved stations lurks beneath this unassuming insurance hall and chapel. (D), FF, R policy around the world. Advanced of the cross by Eric Gill. Large mural brokerage, previously ’s Inn booking required for talks (www.bsg. behind the altar on canvas, painted by Balliol Historic Collections, St Cross dating back to 1279. FF ox.ac.uk). D, FF, R Peter Greenham. D, FF Church, St Cross Road, OX1 3TP The Art Room, Old County Hall, – 11am to 4pm First built in 890, St Campion Hall, Brewer Street, OX1 Cognitive Neuropsychology Centre, New Road, OX1 1ND – 11am to 4pm Cross Church houses Balliol College’s 1QS – 10.30am to 12.30pm & 2pm Walton Street (across from Jericho Showcasing the artwork by the young historic collections of books and to 3.30pm The Jesuit hall of the Health Centre), OX2 6AE – 10am people of The Orchard Meadow Art manuscripts, 750 years in the making. University. Designed by Sir Edwin to 4pm Find out about memory and Room, The Didcot Art Room, and Join us to celebrate a project to uncover Lutyens with many fine architectural decision making and their link to The Oxford Spires Art Room who the remarkable 17th century library of features including the main Chapel and motivation. We develop assessments have been inspired by the artists Yayoi medic, Nicholas Crouch. D, FF Library. (D) for many neurological conditions, Kusama, Grayson Perry and Yinka such as Alzheimer’s Disease. Take Bartlemas Chapel, (lane alongside Chapel of Harris Manchester College, Shonibare. (D), FF part in research or simply learn how 271) Cowley Road, OX4 2AJ – 10am Mansfield Road, OX1 3TD – 11am to keep mentally fit! D, FF, R Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont to 5pm A hidden gem; this Grade to 4pm Described as a ‘Pre-Raphaelite Street, OX1 2PH – 10am to 5pm I listed 14th Century Chapel was Jewel’. The stained glass windows, Highlights tour 11am to 12 noon originally part of the St Bartholomew’s designed by Edward Burne Jones and Meet in Gallery 21 to discover the leper hospital founded by Henry 1st, made by the firm of William Morris are treasures of the Ashmolean. 1pm 1126AD. No car access up the lane – exquisite. Talk with Dr Jon Whiteley to 1.45pm & 2pm to 2.45pm Lower pedestrians only. FF about the windows at 3pm. Discovery ground floor of the Cast Gallery trail: ‘Hunt the Hidden Animals’ for Blackwell’s Bookshop, 48-51 Broad Tours. Explore our study collection children. D, FF Street, OX1 3BQ – Tours between of casts of ancient Greek and Roman 10am & 5pm Gain an insight into the Christ Church, St Aldates, OX1 sculpture. No booking required. rich literary history to be found in 1DP – 10am to 5pm (4pm last (D), FF, R Broad Street! Ending with a visit to the entry and Cathedral closes) Visit BBC Oxford, 269 Banbury Road, Gaffer’s Office, Basil Blackwell’s own the Cathedral, Great Hall, Picture OX2 7DW – Tours between 9am & personal office. D, FF Gallery, Library, quads and gardens. 2.30pm Visit BBC Radio Oxford and Tours, demonstrations and recitals Blavatnik School of Government, South Today TV news to see how we throughout the day. 5pm Choral Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, OX2 broadcast to Oxfordshire! Advanced Evensong. Entry via main visitor 6GG (entrance on Walton Street) – booking required. D, FF entrance – Meadow Gate. For full 10am to 3pm Designed by Herzog details visit www.chch.ox.ac.uk (D), and de Meuron. Discover the stunning FF, R IFFLEY CHURCH

2020 2121 Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street, Reading Room pavilion with its Mary OX1 2HE – 10am to 4pm Opened Baker Eddy information and enter in January 2017, this exciting new this modern church with its light airy Oxford Preservation Trust works throughout development behind the original sanctuary. D, FF 1913 façade provides a wealth of the year to ensure we look after our heritage, buildings architectural beauty. D, FF Greyfriars, 182 Iffley Road, OX4 1SB – 10am to 5pm A Roman Catholic Commonwealth War Graves community of Capuchins, part of the and green spaces for future generations to enjoy. Commission, Botley Cemetery, North Franciscan family. Enjoy the peace of " Hinksey Lane, OX2 0LX – 10am to our garden and visit the parish church 4pm On the centenary of the end of the next door. FF, R Great War, as found on the battlefields of Europe with graves of men, both British Historic England Heritage at Risk and German, who died in Oxford in Exhibition, Castleyard Café, Oxford " both World Wars. D, FF Castle Quarter, New Road, OX1 1AY – 10am to 5pm See the winning entries Examination Schools, 75-81 High in the South East from a photographic Street, OX1 4BG – 10am to 3.30pm competition ran last year to capture A rare opportunity to explore behind the spirit of unloved or at risk heritage closed doors. Do a self-guided tour or sites. D, FF, R book a guided tour to see additional areas and learn more about the The Kilns, Lewis Close, Headington, architecture, history and use of this OX3 8JD – 10am to 4.30pm Home of beautiful venue. Advanced booking author C S Lewis, fully restored to the required for guided tours. D, FF period 1933-1967 when he lived at The Kilns and taught at Oxford and Exeter College, Turl Street, OX1 3DP Cambridge Universities. FF – 10am to 4pm Visit the Chapel and the rarely open Fellows’ Garden. Sit Lincoln College, Turl Street, OX1 in the 17th Century Dining Hall. Also 3DR – 11am to 5pm (Restrictions see where filming for Dr Strange, the apply to Dining Hall and Library) See young Tolkien and Endeavour all took the beautiful front and chapel quads place. (D), FF, R and dining hall (closed between 12 noon & 1.30pm). The College library First Church of Christ Scientist, in the former All Saints Church will 36a St Giles, OX1 3LD – 10am to be open from 11am to 3pm. John 4pm Enter the church gates to find Wesley Room – viewings by request a pretty courtyard garden. Pass the due to access issues. (D), FF Follow us! 2222 23 Family Trail Family Trail ... Questions Follow the trail to the different places, and as you discover the answers 1 CH What year is included on the to questions 1-8 below, circle the letters next to your answer in the 6: 2 EM pavement memorial to Ignacio yellow grid. When you've found all 8 answers put the letters you have Lopez Vasquez outside New 3 I circled together to spell the name of an extraordinary woman who College on New College Lane? 5 AR attended St Hugh's College, Oxford. 6 LY a. 1815 7 D 1: What year is written on the How many animals can b. 1915 8 L café sign outside Oxford Castle 4: 9 EN you see on the crest over the c. 2015 & Prison? entrance to Christ Church 13 T 17 OT a. 900 Gardens on St Aldates? How many square pillars 7: 20 ON b. 1071 a. 7 support the main entrance to the Weston Library in Broad Street? 70 Y c. 1167 b. 17 900 CH c. 70 a. 5 1071 A How many doorways does 2: b. 6 1167 ES Modern Art Oxford have on How many people are there 1815 B 5: c. 9 Pembroke Street? in the stone carving above 1915 WE a. 1 the main entrance to Merton 1917 IP The Painted Room is College on Merton Street? 8: b. 3 above the Vodafone Shop in 1927 VI a. 2 1937 G c. 8 Cornmarket Street. According to b. 13 the plaque in the Painted Room, 1961 PA in what year were the paintings 1971 S 3: In what year did Oxford c. 20 Preservation Trust purchase 8,9 discovered by E.W.Attwood? 1981 E & 10 Turn Again Lane? 2015 ON a. 1917 a. 1961 COMPLETE THE FORM OVERLEAF TO ENTER b. 1927 b. 1971 OUR PRIZE DRAW c. 1937 c. 1981 Answer: ...... 24 25 Saturday

Fill in your details below and hand in to the OPT Lucy Group Ltd, Eagleworks, Walton HARRIS MANCHESTER COLLEGE Well Road, OX2 6EE – 10am to 4pm Hub in Cornmarket to enter our prize draw. Enjoy the canal-side piazza on the The lucky winner will receive £50 and Oxford Preservation Trust site of Lucy’s Foundry, photographic family membership for one year. exhibition and display of archive material on W Lucy & Co Ltd, based in the city for over 200 years. D, FF, R

Mansfield College, Mansfield Road, Name OX1 3TF – 10.30am to 4pm Visit the Library with its stencilled ceiling panels and carved oak bookshelves; see Age the College Chapel, the Old Hall and an Antony Gormley sculpture in the Which School do you attend? quad. (D), FF, R

Parent/Guardian Name Mathematical Institute, Andrew Wiles Building, Radcliffe Observatory Address Quarter, Woodstock Road, OX2 6GG - 10am - 3pm One of Oxford's newest and most impressive buildings, a beguiling blend of architecture and mathematics. D

Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke How can we contact you? Street, OX1 1BP – 10am to 5pm Curator led tours of our current exhibition, ‘A Phone Number Slice through the World: Contemporary Artists’ Drawings’. Advanced booking Email required for tours. FF

How did you hear about Oxford Open Doors? Museum of Oxford and Oxford Town Hall, St Aldates, OX1 1BX – 10.30am to 4.30pm Visit this Grade II* listed Town Hall and join a tour to see rooms Would you like to hear more about OPT's work? not normally open to the public. Tours at 11am, 1pm & 2.30pm – limited tickets available from the Museum Gift Shop 30 mins before tour start times. Self-guided oxfordpreservation.org.uk family trail also available. (D), FF, R CHRIST CHURCH

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New Theatre, George Street, OX1 noon & 2-3pm) on causes, prevention and and see the latest discoveries from under Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad 2AG – 10am to 1.30pm Come and treatment of common diseases. D, FF, R the city. Learn more about the Oxford Street, OX1 3BD – Tours at 11am, tread the boards of our prestigious flood plain and view the finds from some 12 noon, 2pm & 3pm Restored in stage by attending our theatre tours. Nuneham Park, Nuneham Courtenay, of our college excavations. Book sale, self- 2013, the Old Indian Institute building Learn the history and workings of the OX44 9PG – 10am to 4pm Visit guided walks, maps and more! D, FF, R houses the Oxford Martin School. theatre whilst also hearing some of the Church and Gardens within the Discover the stunning architecture the fascinating stories. You may even Capability Brown designed landscape, Oxford Bus Museum (Bonn Square, and hear about the work of over 300 see behind the scenes. FF, R and rare opportunity to visit the Carfax OX1 1LQ) – 10am to 3.45pm Free researchers working on some of the Conduit, formerly in Oxford. FF vintage bus rides around the city. most pressing global issues. Advanced Newman’s College, College Lane, For timetables and stops see www. booking required (www.oxfordmartin. Old Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Littlemore, OX4 4LH – 10am to 5pm oxfordbusmuseum.org.uk. FF ox.ac.uk/event/2596). D, FF Not actually a College at all! From 1842 OX1 3BG – 11am to 4pm See inside to 1846 home of John Henry Newman, the old printing workshop. (D), FF Oxford Castle & Prison, Oxford Oxford Oratory Church, 25 Woodstock leader of the Oxford Movement. Visit Castle Quarter, OX1 1AY – 10am to Road, OX2 6HA – 7.30am to 7.30pm Old County Hall, Oxfordshire County Newman’s room, his oratory and the 5pm (last tour 4.20pm) Experience Oxford Oratory community established Council, New Road, OX1 1ND – 11am library. Small exhibition including the rich history of Oxford and the 25 years ago, 8 September 1993. Small to 4pm Former County Courts of Oxford. Newman memorabilia. (D), FF Castle. Climb the Saxon St George’s exhibition showing features of Oratory See the Old Court Rooms with its grim Tower, descend to the Norman Crypt life and our Jesuit predecessors. D, FF Nuffield Department of Population tunnel to Oxford Prison. Tours every hour and explore the original cells. Guided Health, Richard Doll Building, University from 11.30am. Visit local organisations tours throughout the day on a first Oxford Quaker Meeting House, 43 of Oxford Old Road Campus, Roosevelt also here over the weekend. (D), FF, R come, first served basis. (D), FF, R St Giles, OX1 3LW – 10am to 4pm Drive, OX3 7LF – 10am to 4pm Learn Explore stories from 17th Century Oxford Archaeology, Key Learning about world-leading health research. View Oxford Castle Mound, Oxford Castle Quakers, through to First World War Centre, Oxford Castle & Prison, Oxford laboratories, enjoy science fair activities Quarter, New Road, OX1 1AY – 10am conscientious objectors up to the Castle Quarter, New Road, OX1 1AY and listen to talks by scientists (11am – 12 to 5pm Climb the mound of the 11th present day members of the Oxford – 10am to 4pm Meet our archaeologists Century motte-and-bailey castle and see Quaker community. D, FF, R the 13th Century well chamber. FF, R Oxford University Museum of Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, St Natural History, Parks Road, OX1 Philip & St James Church, Woodstock 3PW – 10am to 5pm D, FF, R Road, OX2 6HR – 10am to 4.30pm Grade I listed Church in Gothic Oxford University Real Tennis Court, Revival style by architect G.W. Street, Merton College, Merton Street, OX1 consecrated in 1862. Outstanding 4JD – 11am to 3pm Demonstrations anglo-Catholic features including of the sport on the hour; the ancestor stained glass windows. Tower open, of modern tennis, at the second oldest guides available. Since 1983 the Oxford court in the world. FF Centre for Mission Studies. (D), FF, R THE QUEEN'S COLLEGE

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Oxford University Parks, South and 11.30am. Meet members of the architecture by Thomas Graham St Benet’s Hall, 38 St Giles, OX1 3LN – Lodge, South Parks Road, OX1 3RF Collections team and look at a new Jackson and Hubert Worthington. 10.30am to 2.30pm Founded in 1897, St – Tours at 11am & 2pm Offering an collection of Arabis textiles. Advanced Introduction to the library, tours, Benet’s is a Benedictine Permanent Private escape from the hustle and bustle of booking required for tours. D, FF displays from the collections and 3D Hall of the University of Oxford. One of the city, a green oasis with something printing demonstration. (D) the smallest and friendliest colleges. Visit to please everyone. Explore with one of The Queen’s College, High Street, our handsome Georgian building and the Parks team… No booking required, OX1 1HA – 11am to 3.30pm Visit Somerville College, Woodstock Road, learn about Benet’s (past, present and first come first served. (D), FF the Gardens, Hall and Chapel of this OX2 6HD – 10am to 4pm Discover future). (D), R magnificent College founded in 1341. extraordinary alumni including former Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, Talks on the history of the College by heads of state and leading politicians, a St Clement’s Church, Marston Rewley Road Fire Station, OX1 2EH the College Archivist and tours of the Nobel prize-winning scientist, authors Road, OX4 1FN – 10am to 6pm A – 10am to 4pm Demonstrations, Library. Advanced booking required and suffragettes. Walk through the well 19th century neo-romanesque Grade displays, family activities throughout for talks and Library tours. (D) maintained gardens. (D), FF, R II listed building. (D), FF the day. D, FF, R Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe St Aldates Church, St Aldates, OX1 St Ebbe’s Church, Pennyfarthing The Painted Room, 3 Cornmarket, Observatory Quarter, Woodstock 1BT – 10am to 5pm The church Place (on corner of St Ebbe’s Street), OX1 3EX (above Vodafone) – 10am Road, OX2 6GG – 10am to 3pm Visit dates back to Saxon times and has a OX1 1QF – 10am to 5pm See the newly to 4pm Visit this hidden gem with the refurbished Old Radcliffe Infirmary fascinating history of continual change. refurbished Church including our new remarkable Elizabethan wall paintings, building (opened in 1770), now home A place of worship for over 1,000 years gallery, on a site where Christians have previously the Crown Tavern where to Radcliffe Humanities including and now a place where over 1,000 met for over 1,000 years. Live music Shakespeare stayed and at one time Sir TORCH – The Oxford Research people gather for Christian worship and refreshments. (D), FF, R John Betjeman’s office. Former offices Centre in the Humanities. Self-guided every Sunday. D, FF, R of Oxford Preservation Trust. Be one of tours and information about TORCH St Francis of Assisi Church, Hollow the first to see the wall paintings now research. D, FF St Anne’s College – Tim Gardam Way, Cowley, OX3 7JE – 10am the panels have been removed! FF Building, Library and Academic to 5pm Opened in 1931 on land Radcliffe Primary Care Building, Centre, Woodstock Road, OX2 donated by Lord Nuffield. Unique Payne & Son, 131 High Street, OX1 4DH Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, 6HS – 10am to 4pm Explore the new painted beams depicting scenes from – 9.30am to 5.30pm ‘The Loving Eye and Woodstock Road, OX2 6GG – 10am Library opened in 2017. Learn about the life of St Francis and hanging Skilful Hand’, an exhibition in memory to 4pm Self-guided tours of the former the history of the Library and the cross. William Morris trail available. of Peter Payne in conjunction with the Radcliffe Infirmary Outpatients collection once shared by all the former D, FF, R British Antique Dealers Association building, discover the blend of new and women’s colleges, and enjoy the roof Centenary. Payne & Sons connection with original features following its extensive terrace with views over the Radcliffe St Frideswide Church, , the Keswick School of Industrial Art with refit. (D), FF, R Observatory Quarter. D, FF, R OX2 0BL – 10am to 4pm The First the work of Silversmith Geoffrey Payne World War memorial lists the names of and other Silversmiths. D, FF Radcliffe Science Library, Parks St Barnabas Church, St Barnabas local men killed and Stephanie Jenkins Road, OX1 3QP – 10.30am to Street, OX2 6BG – 10am to 5pm The remarkable research documents their Pitt Rivers Museum, South Parks 1.30pm The primary science library tall Venetian bell tower is visible from lives. The church houses the ‘Alice’ Road, OX1 3PP – 10am to 4.30pm for the University of Oxford, housed various parts of the city. D, FF, R door, which she carved with an image Behind the scenes tours at 10.30am in a Grade II listed building with of St Frideswide. D, FF

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font, fine organ rescued from St Martin’s The building is greatly admired, University College, High Street, Church at Carfax. Talks and tours at 12 especially the violet and pink window OX1 4BH – 10am to 4pm The oldest noon & 3pm. D, FF, R panes. D, FF, R College in Oxford opens its gates and offers you the opportunity to visit The St John the Evangelist Church, St Michael at the North Gate, Shelley Memorial, The Chapel, The Vicarage Road, OX1 4RE – 10am Cornmarket, OX1 3EY – 10.30am Hall, The Library Exhibition and tour to 5pm Come and discover Oxford’s to 5pm Visit Oxford’s ancient city the Gardens and Grounds. (D), FF, R hidden Ninian Comper Gem. (D), FF, R church and climb the Saxon tower for a wonderful view of Oxford. 4pm the University of Oxford Community St Margaret of Antioch, Binsey Village, Pavlova winds & Radcliffe ensemble Fair, Somerville College, Woodstock OX2 0NG – 9am to 5pm Ancient church perform Schubert’s Octet. (D), FF Road, OX2 6HD – 10am to 2pm believed to be one of the sites associated Visit the University’s Community Fair with St Frideswide, who later founded her Stanford University in Oxford, to find out about the range of events, order on the site of Christ Church. Lewis Stanford House, 65 High Street, talks and activities open to everyone Carroll used the well in the churchyard as OX1 4EL – 11am to 2.30pm Rare throughout the year – many for free his Treacle Well. (D), FF opportunity to visit the Stanford – from wildlife activities at Wytham University undergraduate centre in Woods, exhibitions and science talks to St Mary and St John Church, Cowley BODLEIAN LIBRARY Oxford. Renovated and extended in family days, tours and citizen science Road, OX4 1UR – 10am to 4pm 2014, and 2015 OPT Awards winner. projects. Information stands and Glorious Victorian Gothic Revival St Giles’ Church, Woodstock Road, (D), FF, R hands-on activities. D, FF OX2 6HT – 10am to 6pm Display on church. Founded in 1875, in the heady the theme of Extraordinary People. days of the Oxford movement. Find Taylor Institution Library, St Giles, University of Oxford Harcourt Building up to the 900th anniversary out more about the pioneering work OX1 3NA – Tours between 10am & Arboretum, Nuneham Courtenay, of the church in 2020 there will be of FR Benson, and also some of the 3pm Beautiful 19th Century Library OX44 9PX – 10am to 4pm (last displays on future projects. (D), FF extraordinary people buried in the designed by C.R. Cockerell and entry 3.15pm) Part of the University churchyard. D, FF dedicated to the study of Modern of Oxford since 1947, its 130 acres St Hugh’s College, St Margaret’s Road, European Languages. Hourly tours contain the best collection of trees in St Mary’s, Church Way, Iffley, OX4 OX2 6LE – 10am to 4pm Opened in to include exhibition of Library Oxfordshire, with some of the oldest 4EJ – 11am to 4.30pm Visitors to 1886 to offer an Oxford University holdings. Tours limited – first come, redwoods in the UK. (D), FF education to women. Stroll around our Iffley Church, Hall and Glebe Field are first served. (D) tranquil 14 acre site and lovely gardens, invited to vote for the finalist in our Wadham College, Parks Road, OX1 3PN and see our Chapel and Dining Hall. Photographic Competition. Booklets The University Church of St Mary – 9am to 4.15pm Visit the Chapel and Self-guided tour leaflets available. D, FF available on Annora who was an the Virgin, High Street, OX1 4BJ – Gardens. 1pm to 4pm Hall open. D, FF Anchoress at Iffley from 1235-40. See 10am to 4pm Rare opportunity to visit St James Church, Beauchamp Lane, website for more. D, FF, R the Old Library. Built in 1320, it is the Walters & Co, 10 Turl Street, OX1 Cowley, OX4 3LF – 10am to 5pm first University (as opposed to College) 3DN – 8.30am to 5.30pm Once the Early Norman church. Former garrison St Matthew's Church, Marlborough building in Oxford. Exhibition on Maiden Head Coaching Inn over 200 church of the Oxford & Bucks Light Road, OX1 4LW – 10am to 6pm Grace Hadow. D, FF, R years ago. Outfitters to foreign, colonial Infantry. Early scratch sundials, Saxon Dedicated by William Stubbs in 1890. appointments of the British Empire,

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Tolkien exhibition requires pre- booked tickets at Tolkien.bodleian. ox.ac.uk D, FF, R In the Afternoon... Blackwell’s Bookshop, 48-51 Broad Street, OX1 3BQ – Tours between Sunday 12 noon & 4pm An insight into the Walks... rich literary history to be found in Canal & Swingbridge walk – 11am Broad Street! Ending with a visit to the Local historian and author Mark 9 SEPT Gaffer’s Office. D, FF Davies will be leading a historical walk along the canal from Hythe Church of St Alban the Martyr, Charles Bridge to including Street, OX4 3AH – 2pm to 4pm 1930’s the LMS Swingbridge. church in Italianate style influenced by In the morning... the Arts and Crafts movement. 14 carved Medieval Jewish Quarter – 2pm Join Campion Hall, Brewer Street, OX1 stations of the cross by Eric Gill. Large historian Pam Manix for an insight 1QS – 10.30am to 12 noon The Jesuit mural painted by Peter Greenham. D, FF into this little known aspect of Oxford’s Hall of the University. Designed by medieval history. D Sir Edwin Lutyens with many fine First Church of Christ Scientist, 36a St PITT RIVERS MUSEUM architectural features including the Giles, OX1 3LD – 12 noon to 4pm Enter Old Field Names of Blackbird Leys – main Chapel and Library. (D) the church gates to find a pretty courtyard military uniform suppliers during 2pm Katie Hambrook leads a circular garden. Pass the Reading Room pavilion WW and WW2. Now considered the walk around Blackbird Leys using Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, with its Mary Baker Eddy information ‘Harrods of Oxford’ supplying classic old field name to reveal the medieval Marston Road, OX3 0EE – 10am and enter this modern church with its and contemporary menswear. (D), FF landscapes of the area. to 12.15pm This beautiful building light airy sanctuary. D, FF blends architectural features of City Walls Walk – 11am Discover the Wesley Memorial Methodist Church, traditional Oxford Colleges with Greyfriars, 182 Iffley Road, OX4 city walls that are still standing and New Inn Hall Street, OX1 2DH – forms and styles of the classical period 1SB – 2pm to 5pm A Roman Catholic hidden beneath your feet with Julian 10am to 5pm Methodist Gothic at of Islam. 40 minutes tours. Advanced community of Capuchins, part of the Munby, OPT Trustee and Oxford its best, fine stained glass and a warm booking required (via www.oxcis. Franciscan family. Enjoy the peace of Archaeology’s Head of Buildings welcome. Displays about the first chapel ac.uk) (D), FF our garden and visit the parish church on the site – opened in 1818 as well as a Archaeology. next door. FF, R special exhibition in conjunction with Private 20th Century Art Advanced booking required Hogacre Common Eco Park, 47a Christian Aid. (D), FF, R for all walks. Collection, Iffley – 11.30am Tour Works by Ben Nicholson, David Whitehouse Road, OX1 4QH – 12 Weston Library, Broad Street, OX1 Jones, Winifred Nicholson and noon to 5pm An ecological haven 3BG – 11am to 4pm Celebrate an Check out our website for other 19th and 20th Century artists. comprising meadow, trees - young and extraordinary writer with a day of Advanced booking required. mature, OxGrow Community garden, fun drop-in activities exploring the more venues and events over bee hives, orchard, forest school area, and imaginative worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien. *the weekend former sports pavilion with café. FF, R 3434 www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk 3535 Sunday

Holywell Cemetery, St Cross Road, OX1 St Cross College and Pusey House, 61 St tranquillity off busy Walton Street. South Today TV news to see how we 3LZ – 2pm to 4pm Guided walks to look Giles, OX1 3LZ – 2pm to 5pm View the Self-guided tour showing memorials broadcast to Oxfordshire! Advanced at graves of interest both for the geology public areas of St Cross College including of local notables. (D) booking required. D, FF and famous people buried here. (D), FF the new West Wing, and Pusey House’s Chapel and Library. 10 minute talks at 3pm St Stephen’s House/SJE Arts, 109a Balliol College, Broad Street, OX1 3BJ Magdalen College School Gardens, (Pusey) and 4pm (St Cross). (D), FF, R Iffley Road, OX4 1EH – 1pm to 5pm – 10am to 4pm Founded in 1263, explore Cowley Place, OX4 1DZ – 12 noon to See the beautiful hidden heritage at the rich history and the extraordinary 4pm Stroll through the beautiful Rose St Edmund Hall, Queens Lane, OX1 this former monastery. Highlights people associated with the College. See the Garden, cross the iconic white Chinese 4AR – 12 noon to 4pm The first reference include the unique G.F. Bodley splendid gardens, hall and chapel. (D), FF bridges over the River Cherwell and to the Hall was recorded in 1317. View designed church and cloister, and our enjoy the unrivalled views. D, FF, R the Old Dining Hall (1652), Chapel WW1 pop-up exhibition, ‘Wartime at Balliol Historic Collections, St Cross (1680) and the Wolfson Hall with its an Oxfordshire Monastery’. (D), FF Church, St Cross Road, OX1 3TP Hydro, East Street, Osney portrait exhibition ‘Women at the Hall’. – 11am to 4pm First built in 890, Island, OX2 0AX – 2pm to 4pm The first Churchyard and gardens open. (D), FF St Thomas the Martyr, Becket Street, the Church houses Balliol's historic community owned hydro to be built and OX1 1PP – 12 noon to 4pm Exhibition to collections of books and manuscripts. operating on the Thames. See the hydro St Giles’ Church, Woodstock Road, celebrate the centenary of the birth of Olive Join us to celebrate a project to uncover up close and meet the volunteers. (D) OX2 6HT – 12 noon to 4pm Display Gibbs, twice Lord Mayor of Oxford. Guided the remarkable 17th century library of on the theme of Extraordinary People. walk from St Thomas to St Barnabas with medic, Nicholas Crouch. D, FF Oxford Quaker Meeting House, 43 St Building up to the 900th anniversary of Mark Davies at 2pm (advanced booking Giles, OX1 3LW – 1.30pm to 4.30pm the church in 2020 there will be displays required for walk). D, FF Bartlemas Chapel, (lane alongside 271) Explore stories from 17th Century on forthcoming projects. (D), FF Cowley Road, OX4 2AJ – 11am to 5pm Quakers, through to First World War One of Oxford’s hidden gems; this Grade conscientious objectors up to the St John the Evangelist Church, I listed 14th Century Chapel was part of present day members of the Oxford Vicarage Road, OX1 4RE – 12 noon All day ... the earlier St Bartholomew’s leper hospital The Art Room, Old County Hall, Quaker community. D, FF, R to 5pm Discover Oxford’s hidden founded by Henry 1st, 1126AD. No car New Road, OX1 1ND – 11am to 4pm Ninian Comper Gem. (D), FF, R access up the lane – pedestrians only. FF Regimental Chapel of the Oxfordshire Showcasing the artwork by the young and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, St Mary and St John Church, Cowley people of The Orchard Meadow Art Blavatnik School of Government, Christ Church Cathedral, St Aldates, Road, OX4 1UR – 2pm to 4pm Room, The Didcot Art Room, and Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, OX2 OX1 1DP – 3pm A 1 hour guided tour Glorious Victorian Gothic Revival The Oxford Spires Art Room who 6GG (entrance on Walton Street) – with The Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum church. Founded in 1875. Find out have been inspired by the artists Yayoi 10am to 3pm Designed by Herzog and covering College war memorial and other more about the pioneering work of FR Kusama, Grayson Perry and Yinka de Meuron. Discover the stunning open military memorials in the Cathedral and Benson, and the extraordinary people Shonibare. (D), FF Inamori Forum, enjoy the roof terrace Cloister. Advanced booking required. (D) buried in the churchyard. D, FF and a coffee in our café. Self-guided Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, tours and pre-booked short talks. OX1 2PH – 10am to 5pm (D), FF, R St Clement’s Church, Marston Road, St Sepulchre’s Cemetery, 80 Walton Hear about our work to support better OX4 1FN – 12 noon to 6pm A 19th Street, OX2 6EA – 2pm to 4pm BBC Oxford, 269 Banbury Road, government and public policy around century neo-romanesque Grade II An awarding winning hidden OX2 7DW – Tours between 9am & the world. Advanced booking required listed building. (D), FF place providing a green space and 2.30pm Visit BBC Radio Oxford and for talks (www.bsg.ox.ac.uk). D, FF, R

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Carfax Tower (City Sightseeing), for many neurological conditions, such competition ran last year to capture Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Queen Street, OX1 1ES – 10.30am as Alzheimer’s Disease. Take part in the spirit of unloved or at risk heritage Street, OX1 1BP – 10am to 5pm Curator to 4.30pm Climb 99 steps to the top research or simply learn how to keep sites. D, FF, R led tours of our current exhibition, ‘A of the tower to get a bird’s eye view of mentally fit! D, FF, R Slice through the World: Contemporary Oxford’s Dreaming Spires. FF Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Artists’ Drawings’. Advanced booking Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street, OX1 Road, OX2 6PN – 11am to 2pm required for tours. FF City of Oxford Silver Band, Oxford 2HE – 10am to 4pm Opened in January The University’s largest and most Castle & Prison, Oxford Castle 2017, this exciting new development international graduate college. See Museum of the History of Science, Quarter, New Road, OX1 1AY – behind the original 1913 façade provides a the Kellogg College Hub, the first Broad Street, OX1 3AZ – 12 noon to 10am to 2pm Oxford’s oldest brass wealth of architectural beauty. D, FF building in the University to use the 5pm Displays on remarkable women band. Instrument displays and environmentally friendly Passivhaus in science, and tours at 12.30pm or demonstrations. Performances 12 noon Commonwealth War Graves design. (D), FF, R 1.15pm to discover intricate Islamic to 12.45pm & 1.15pm to 2pm. D, FF, R Commission, Botley Cemetery, North instruments, Einstein’s blackboard Hinksey Lane, OX2 0LX – 10am to Lincoln College, Turl Street, OX1 and the first cultures of the life-saving Cognitive Neuropsychology Centre, 4pm On the centenary of the end of the 3DR – 11am to 5pm (Restrictions antibiotic Penicillin. (D), FF Walton Street (across from Jericho Great War, as found on the battlefields of apply to Dining Hall and Library) Visit Health Centre), OX2 6AE – 10am Europe with graves of men, both British the beautiful front and chapel quads New College, New College Lane Gate, to 4pm Find out about memory and and German, who died in Oxford in and dining hall (closed between 12 OX1 3BN – 11am to 5pm An incredible decision making and their link to both World Wars. D, FF noon & 1.30pm). The College library opportunity to see the City Wall dating motivation. We develop assessments in the former All Saints Church will be from the 12th Century as well as the 14th Divinity School, Old Bodleian open from 11am to 3pm. John Wesley Century Chapel and Cloisters. D, FF Library, entrance from Catte Room – viewings by request. (D), FF COHEN QUAD Street, OX1 3BG – 11am to 5pm New Theatre, George Street, OX1 2AG A magnificent piece of gothic Magdalen College, High Street, OX1 – 10am to 1.30pm Tread the boards of architecture. The first teaching room 4AU – 10am to 7pm Visit the magnificent our prestigious stage by attending our and earliest examination hall of the gardens, Deer Park, Addison Walk (riverside tours. Learn the history and workings University of Oxford. D, FF walk), Chapel and Hall of this famous of the theatre whilst also hearing some Oxford College founded in 1458. Organ of the fascinating stories. FF, R Exeter College, Turl Street, OX1 3DP demonstrations at 2pm & 4pm. ‘Flora & – 10am to 4pm Visit the Chapel and the Fauna’ exhibition in the Old Library with the Old County Hall, Oxfordshire rarely open Fellows’ Garden. Sit in the Repton book on display. D, FF, R County Council, New Road, OX1 17th Century Dining Hall. Also see where 1ND – 11am to 4pm See the Old filming for Dr Strange, the young Tolkien Merton College, Merton Street, OX1 Court Rooms with its grim tunnel to and Endeavour all took place. (D), FF, R 4JD – 10am to 4.30pm Tour the 4 main Oxford Prison. Tours every hour from Quads, including Mob Quad, the oldest 11.30am. Visit local organisations also Historic England Heritage at Risk in Oxford; the Chapel dating to the end here over the weekend and classic cars Exhibition, Castleyard Café, Oxford of the 13th Century and the beautiful in the courtyard. (D), FF, R Castle Quarter, New Road, OX1 1AY award-winning gardens. (D), FF – 10am to 5pm See the winning entries in the South East from a photographic

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Oxford Archaeology, Key Learning 1993. Small exhibition showing Talks throughout the day culminating in a ago. Outfitters to foreign, colonial Centre, Oxford Castle & Prison, Oxford features of Oratory life and our Jesuit classical recital at 4pm by the Pavlova Wind appointments of the British Empire, Castle Quarter, New Road, OX1 1AY – predecessors. D, FF Quintet. (D), FF military uniform suppliers during 10am to 4pm Meet our archaeologists WW1, WW2. Now considered the and see the latest discoveries from under Oxford University Museum of Somerville College, Woodstock Road, ‘Harrods of Oxford’ supplying classic the city. Learn more about the Oxford Natural History, Parks Road, OX1 OX2 6HD – 10am to 4pm Discover and contemporary menswear. (D), FF flood plain and view the finds from 3PW – 10am to 5pm D, FF, R extraordinary alumni including former college excavations. D, FF, R heads of state and leading politicians, a Weston Library, Broad Street, OX1 Oxford University Parks, South Nobel prize-winning scientist, authors 3BG – 11am to 5pm D, FF, R Oxford Brookes University, Headington Lodge, South Parks Road, OX1 3RF and suffragettes. Walk through the well Campus, OX3 0BP – 10am to 5pm Join – Tours at 11am & 2pm Offering an maintained gardens. (D), FF, R Worcester College, Beaumont Street, us to learn more of our history and tour escape from the hustle and bustle of OX1 2LW – 10.30am to 4.30pm Enjoy our award-winning buildings. See the the city, a green oasis with something St Barnabas Church, St Barnabas the tranquil charm of our college with redeveloped Clerici building and the Sir to please everyone. Explore with one of Street, OX2 6BG – 10am to 5pm its extensive award winning gardens and Kenneth Wheare Hall, named in honour the Parks team. No booking required, The tall Venetian bell tower is visible stunning architecture. (D), FF, R of this key figure in the University’s history, first come first served. (D), FF from various parts of the city. Guided alongside the modernised former campus walk from St Thomas to St Barnabas Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, main reception. Not to be missed!! D, FF, R with Mark Davies at 2pm (advanced Walks... Rewley Road Fire Station, OX1 2EH – booking required for walk). D, FF, R Oxford Running Tour - 10am, 12 Oxford Castle & Prison, Oxford Castle 10am to 4pm Demonstrations, displays, noon & 2pm Join Kevin Byrne for an Quarter, OX1 1AY – 10am to 5pm family activities throughout the day. D, FF, R St Margaret of Antioch, Binsey Village, hours leisurely run – a unique way to (last tour 4.20pm) Experience the rich OX2 0NG – 9am to 5pm Simple ancient experience Oxford! The Painted Room, 3 Cornmarket, history of Oxford and the Castle. Climb church believed to be one of the sites OX1 3EX (above Vodafone) – 10am Russian Heritage in Oxford – 11am A the Saxon St George’s Tower, descend associated with St Frideswide. Lewis to 4pm Visit this hidden gem with fascinating tour with Dr Nina Kruglikova to the Norman Crypt and explore the Carroll used the well in the churchyard remarkable Elizabethan wall paintings, exploring the many and varied Russian original cells. Guided tours throughout as his Treacle Well. (D), FF previously the Crown Tavern where connections with the city. the day on a first come, first served basis. Shakespeare stayed and at one time Sir Trinity College, Broad Street, OX1 Classic cars in the courtyard. (D), FF, R Tom, Nick & Barney walk – 2pm John Betjeman’s office. Former offices 3BH – 10am to 4pm Visit the restored Literary and historical walk with Oxford Castle Mound, Oxford Castle of Oxford Preservation Trust. Be one of 17th Century Chapel, the Dining Hall local historian and author Mark Quarter, New Road, OX1 1AY – 10am the first to see the wall paintings now and extensive gardens. (D) Davies alongside the waterways of St to 4pm Climb the mound of the 11th the panels have been removed! FF Thomas’ Parish. Including the railway Wadham College, Parks Road, OX1 Century motte-and-bailey castle with Swingbridge and a historical canal lock. Pitt Rivers Museum, South Parks Road, 3PN – 9am to 4.15pm Visit the Chapel 13th Century well chamber. FF, R Ending at St Barnabas Church, Jericho. OX1 3PP – 10am to 4.30pm D, FF and Gardens. D, FF Advanced booking required Oxford Oratory Church, 25 Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, OX1 Walters & Co, 10 Turl Street, OX1 Woodstock Road, OX2 6HA – 7.30am for all walks. 3AZ – 10am to 4pm For fantastic views over 3DN – 11am to 4pm Once the Maiden to 7.30pm Oxford Oratory community Oxford visit the University’s Ceremonial Head Coaching Inn over 200 years established 25 years ago, 8 September Hall designed by Sir Christopher Wren.

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