Oxford buildings

Images 1 to 20

1st = Radcliffe Camera; 2nd = Griffith Institute; 3rd = Sackler Library; 4th and 5th = Ashmolean Museum; 6th = old Ashmolean Museum, now Museum of the History of Science; 7th = Blackwells; 8th = old Headington post office; 9th = The Kilns, the house of C. S. Lewis, in Risinghurst; 10th = the statue of the Earl of Pembroke in front of the east facade of the Bodleian Library, from the Schools Quadrangle; 11th = south façade of the Schools Quadrangle, Bodleian Library; 12th = the house in Wolvercote, Oxford in which Jaroslav Cerny, Professor of Egyptology at Oxford (1951-1965), lived in 1951-1970; 13th = one of the herms ("Emperors") outside the Sheldonian Theatre; 14th = shop sign of Payne & Son, Jewellers & Silversmiths, High Street; 15th = Vanbrugh House, St Michael's Street; 16th = Sheldonian; 17th = Apollo above the pediment of the Ashmolean; 18th = St Giles House, St Giles Street; 19th = Radcliffe Camera, Bodleian Library; 20th = the new Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road, under construction.

Images 21 to 40

21st = plaque at Gloucester Green marking the place where two Levellers were shot on 18 September 1649; 22nd = John Radcliffe Children's hospital; 23rd = Oxford Town Hall, St Aldate's Street; 24th = Bury Knowle House, Headington, now Headington Library; 25th = the house in Old High Street, Headington, where Joy Davidman, the wife of C. S. Lewis, used to live; 26th = Christ Church Cathedral School, seen from St Aldate's Street; 27th = Stone's Almshouses in St Clements; 28th = Examination Schools; 29th = Corn Exchange, George Street; 30th = Oxford University Press, Walton Street; 31st = McDonald's restaurant, London Road; 32nd = St George's Tower, Oxford Castle; 33rd = 11, Norham Gardens, for some time the home of Professor F. Ll. Griffith; 34th = 39 St Giles Street, for many years the home of Dr R.L.B. Moss and Mrs. E.W. Burney; 35th = Radcliffe Camera; 36th = the former British Workman alcohol-free public house in Headington; 37th = Headington Hill Hall (now Brookes University); 38th to 40th = painted houses in Cowley Road.

Images 41 to 43

41st to 43rd = Oxford at night: Bodleian Library, Divinity School; Clarendon Building, south façade; the herms outside the Sheldonian Theatre.


All images © Jaromir Malek.


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