Saturday 17 October 2015

Oxford snapshots

 
My sister and brother-in-law are visiting us so we've been doing quite a lot of sightseeing. We went to Oxford the other day and I took a few photographs to record the day.
 
 
 


Quirky courtyard and buildings, I love the rounded room in the middle.



 
 
 

 
A quick visit to the covered market
 

 
 

 
and like everyone else, we admired the cakes in the cakeshop
 
 
 

 

Halloween is the theme at the moment




 
and some glorious cakes are on display.
 

 
 


Lincoln College was closed


 
 
 
 
 

but we managed to get a look at the courtyard
 
 
 



as did other people.




It was a glorious sunny day
 


 


and the Anthony Gormley sculpture on the roof of Blackwell's delighted
 
 
 
 




 
Henry Moore's Three Piece Reclining Figure No. 2 outside the Ashmolean
 




A Fayoum portrait inside the museum


 

 
A Barbara Hepworth sculpture
 
 
 



the modern extension to the museum is always a pleasure to see





An early Greek kouros from Delphi
 
 
 
 
 
a sculpture of Apollo from the 5th century BC
 
 
 


a leisurely, very satisfying lunch in the tearooms of the Randolph
 
 
 
 


the William Baker House which houses Waterstones
 
 
 


an old timber-framed building.
 
 


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