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Fisher Row and Remains of Oxford Castle The square tower in the background is part of the remains of Oxford Castle. |
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The Cottages, Worcester College Gardens Not a little has the modern revival of gardening, which has brought back the old herbaceous border, added to the charm of cottage gardens. [p. 25] [more...] |
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The Old Clarendon Building, Broad Street ...the Clarendon Building with its lofty pillared porch, where once the University Press was housed. [p. 30] |
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Christ Church Now let us stroll on – ’tis but a step – to Christ Church. Sometimes it seems as though this should take precedence of all other colleges. Its chapel is Oxford’s Cathedral, its quadrangles are the finest, its founder was in some ways the most famous; and lastly (and of least account), if one who has tried the task of “seeing Oxford” in an afternoon [...] [p. 37] [more...] |
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Brasenose College and Radcliffe Library Rotunda ... the great dome of the Radcliffe Camera rose up in the space between All Souls and brasenose colleges, and was thenceforth the first object to take the eye of one [...] [p. 10] [more...] |
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Botanic Gardens and Magdalan Tower The Botanical Gardens by Magdalan Bridge. Their situation on the brink of the River Cherwell, and almost under the shadow of Magdalan Tower, is what probably appeals most strongly to the ordinary observer, while those who merely pass the gardens by will delight in the gateway, the work of Inigo Jones, with its statues of Charles I and II. Formal these gardens are of necessity, but there hangs [...] [more...] |
