Oxford: 2 hour Historical, literary and architectural highlights

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• 1

  Important Victorian monument to the Protestant martyrs of the 16th century.

  3 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 2

  This Anglo Saxon Tower was part of the Medieval city gate and is probably the surviving oldest building in Oxford today. Many stories over the centuries

  4 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 3
  Exeter College

  Exeter's chapel was inspired by the Oxford Movement and modelled on Paris' St Chapelle. Graduates include Philip Pullman, JR Tolkien and Alan Bennett.

  4 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 4
  Lincoln College

  Lincoln College's original face onto Turn Street tells a story about the University's origins and its relationship with the city. Lincoln College recently got it first Priminister Rushi Sunak, and was also home to the ~Methodist Wesley Brothers

  3 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 5
  University Church of St. Mary the Virgin

  The University Church was the University's first building. It is listed in the Doomsday Book. Ot is possible to climb its magnificent spire. Today we will admire its famous stained glass and learn how it inspired CS Lewis.

  7 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 6
  Bridge of Sighs

  Oxford's iconic bridge belonging to Hertford College. Although it looks like an old Venetian Bridge, it was built in the twentieth century! It is also next to the house of Edmund Halley who had the comet named after him.

  3 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 7
  Sheldonian Theatre

  We will admire this 17th century home to the ceremonies of Oxford University. It is believed to be the first building by Christopher Wren. The architect of St Paul's Cathedral in London was also Astronomer of Photography at Oxford University.

  6 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 8
  Bodleian Library

  Today the Bodlein Library has over 13 million books. We will admire the 17th century buildings and learn about the origins go the library and how it still works today.

  5 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 9
  Radcliffe Camera

  Oxford's first science Library. Learn about one of Oxford's most eccentric and generous benefactors, the Royal Physician sir John Radcliffe

  5 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 10
  Balliol College

  We will step inside Oxford's second oldest college and see its internal quadrangle, the Capel with its glorious stained glass, as well as its dining hall with portraits that tell its interesting foundation story. Here we'll learn more about when women undergraduates started to have access to the University and its colleges.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket included

Additional info

• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Wheelchair accessible
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• Wheelchair accessible only with prior notice

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