Tagged: Medieval

One of Oxford's oldest colleges — plain outside, historically significant inside

The 23-metre Saxon-medieval tower at the centre of Oxford — climb 99 steps for a four-way panorama.

Tolkien's college, a miniature Sainte-Chapelle, and a hidden view over Radcliffe Square

A medieval tower at the north end of Folly Bridge, demolished 1779. The 13th-century Franciscan friar Roger Bacon — one of the earliest European advocates of the scientific method — is said to have lived and worked here.

A Benedictine nunnery founded in 1133 on an island in the Thames; the burial place of Henry II's mistress Rosamund Clifford until a bishop ordered her tomb thrown out of the church in 1191. Suppressed in 1539, ruined in the Civil War, painted by the Pre-Raphaelites, picnicked over by Lewis Carroll.

Home of the Bridge of Sighs — the much-photographed arch over New College Lane

Oxford's oldest quad, a medieval library, and Tolkien's second home

Medieval cloisters, a stretch of city wall, and a chapel with an El Greco

Oxford's oldest royal foundation — seven centuries on a beautiful square

Norman castle (1071) and former Victorian prison — the medieval mound, St George's Tower, and 1,000 years of overlapping use.

The 13th-century defensive ring around medieval Oxford — best-preserved in the gardens of New College.

The oldest academic hall in any university — 800 years in a tiny quad off Queen's Lane

On 10 February 1355 two students complained about the wine at the Swindlestock Tavern at Carfax. Three days later, ninety-three people were dead — and the university had supremacy over the town for the next 470 years.

A baroque showpiece on the High Street — Oxford's only fully classical college

Possibly Oxford's oldest college — Shelley's memorial and a long High Street facade

A medieval lecture hall in the Perpendicular style, built between 1427 and 1483 and still attached to the Bodleian Library.