We spent some time at Magdalene College and walked the path where Lewis and Tolkien walked. We parked in a park and ride outside of town and took a bus to the city center and set out to find all the places that C.S. In 2004 on a Literary trip to celebrate our daughter’s graduation from high school we visited Oxford for a day. If my memory serves me correctly it was in Oxford that I purchased the tea set for the Teapot I bought in Canterbury in 1973 on our singing group tour (Royal Albert, Moss Rose). We were in Oxford the summer of 1974 briefly on our way to Blenheim Palace with our Singing group before we were married. Its dynamic integration of architecture, sculpture and painting is unrivalled amongst surviving ecclesiastical interiors in England.Äeposition of Christ ~ (copy after Andrea del Sarto) by Gaetano Cannicci, 1870. The Chapel was consecrated in 1694 and was hailed by contemporaries as the most magnificent Chapel in the University. We had to pay a small entrance fee to walk about these colleges. We visited two more of the University of Oxford Colleges, Trinity and Magdalen. After our walking tour of Oxford on our 6th day in England Dear and I enjoyed some lunch and then walked about on our own. You can read about the history of Trinity College by clicking here. We traveled by train to Oxford from the Cotswolds leaving our rental car behind which is a very good idea when visiting Oxford. This is a post from my archives from July of 2014.
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