Meandering around Oxford

 

The oldest building in Oxford, dating from the 11th century, the tower by St Michael's church, but originally just a defensive tower on the North Gate of the city walls, not a church tower at all

This is the tower of St Martin's church, which is 14th century, but unlike St Michael's it doesn't have a church any more as it was demolished in the 19th century

The Victorian Randolph Hotel

The Ashmolean Museum

I thought since I was in town I should visit the exhibition on at the Ashmolean. Big mistake. It cost me £17 and absolutely everything else in the Ashmolean was more interesting than its only paid exhibition! It was on the theme of money, but that really is overstating a "theme". More that a rather random selection of exhibits had some link to money in some way. best bits were some of the designs for coins, below. But as for the rest, a few paintings which depicted, say tax collectors, and some modern "artworks" which related to money, but of zero artistic merit. Four rooms of which only one had anything of significant interest. You can tell I wasn't impressed! Possibly the worst value for money of any exhibition I have visited in the last half century.

The rest of the Ashmolean is ever so good!

When I first spied this in the silver cabinet I thought it was an early representation of tennis. Actually its a bird catcher!

Martyrs Memorial

My old college, St Johns, originally called St Bernard's

Late afternoon was a nice time to visit the parks

Keble College

Sheldonian Theatre

Bridge Of Sighs

Bodleian Library

Note here a "tower of the orders" - each floor has a different type of pillar, one for each classical order, Doric, Ionic, Tuscan, Corinthian and Composite. A bit of architectural showmanship, especially as it is on basically gothic building

Radcliffe Camera

St Mary's Church