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A TOUR OF OXFORD

The sections below are taken from

Monsignor Laurence Goulder:The Universities: Oxford and Cambridge, in the Pilgrimage Pamphlets series, published by the Guild of Our Lady of Ransom (Second Edition, 1963).

The are placed on-line by kind permission of Goulder's literary executor and the Guild of Our Lady of Ransom.

They follow a walking tour of Central Oxford, and to some extent the entries refer to this order.

To open the whole tour on one page, click here.

Individual entries can be accessed from the side-bar list. They can be searched throught the facility in the bar at the very top of the page; 'labels' have been added to enable readers to see related entries together (click on 'College' at the bottom of an entry on a college, for example, and see all the posts on colleges together).
Additional and more up-to-date commentary has been provided in most cases in green. This is periodically expanded and updated. Recent updates include:

Sheldonian Theatre: build by the Catholic architect Gibbs
The Castle: scene of execution of the 'Protestant joiner' by the famous Jack Ketch
St Giles: near scene of burning of a female murder in the 18th C.
Campion Hall: built by Sir Edwin Lutyns

Also new are the opening sections of Goulder's guide, on the Town Walls and two outlying places of interest, Dorchester and Littlemore.

Soon to be added: material on other out-lying sites, including Iffley and Godstow.