Aedes Christi Lodge at their annual Oxford meeting in the mid 1990s.
|
Christ Church, Oxford.
The statue of Mercury stands on a podium in the middle of the
fountain. In the background you see the great hall, designed for Cardinal Wolsey,
who founded the college in the 1520s. Wolsey Tower is to the left. |
A view of Tom Quad in Christ Church, showing the pond (Mercury) and the gateway under
Tom Tower. Great Tom is a gigantic bell, weighing more than ten tons, which tolls 101
times at five past nine every night, traditionally to summon the scholars of Christ Church
back to the college.
Note the absence of the statue from the podium: it had been
removed by riotous undergraduates. |
The River Cherwell, in Oxford, from Christ Church Meadow.Oxford is fortunate in having
many havens of tranquility which aid thought, unless they are overcrowded with students
trying to find somewhere to think, or with tourists trying to gawp at them. |
A very unusual Oxford room. The top room in the Old Library in Christ Church was
David's room in his final year. The ceiling panels had been painted in the early 17th
century with coats of arms of many Royal houses of Europe with Oxford connections. |
Close-up of one of the ceiling panels in Old Library 15. This one is Anne of Denmark,
wife of King James VI of Scotland and I of England.
|
Christ Church is unique among the Oxford colleges in that its College chapel is also
Oxford Cathedral. The spire and nave are viewed here from Christ Church Meadow on a crisp
winter morning.
|