OXFORD THE CITY OF DREAMING

And that citySPIRES

with her dreaming

spires, she needs not June for

beautys heightening
Matthew

Arnold
Thyrsis

CARFAX TOWER

University
Church of St.
Mary the Virgin

TOWER
The oldest part
of
the present
church
124 steps to
climb

South Porch

Designed by
Nicholas Stone
Highly ornate
Spiral columns
Statue of the
Virgin and Child

RADCLIFFE CAMERA
Reading room for
Bodleian Library
Designed by
James Gibbs
The earliest
example in
England of circular
library

SHELDONIAN
THEATRE

32 oil on canvas
panels originally
painted by Robert
Streater
Truth descending
upon the Arts and
Sciences and
expelling ignorance
from the University

CHRIST
CHURCH

The Alice Window

inside The Great Hall
dedicated to Charles
Dodgson and Alice
Liddell

The brass firedogs in the Great Hall at Christ

Church may have inspired Alice with a long
neck

little door behind the

curtain, in the
hallway

The Christ Church College dining hall inspired

the Great Hall.

the grand staircase

where Mrs.
McGonagall greets the
children