highlyeccentric: Manuscript illumination - courtiers throwing snowballs (medieval - everybody snowball)
highlyeccentric ([personal profile] highlyeccentric) wrote2013-09-15 04:05 pm

August photos - views from St Mary's, Oxford


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First, some interior views:


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Statue gives no fucks:


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Grotesques!


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Possibly my favourite:

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That expression of strain is because of the saint's weight:

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Some views. I really like the ones looking along high street toward Magdalen Bridge:

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Another grotesque in pain:

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Two different sundials visible from above:

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Turns out you can't actually see Dr J's office roof from here, because of the curve of the road and a tree being in the way:

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You're looking at All Souls College in the foreground, as far as the tree through which you can see a bus. Hidden are some shop buildings, and two houses which have been bought up by The Queen's College. It is in one of these that Dr J had his office abode. The next big building is Queen's, with the quadrangle at the front and big arched friezes visible.

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