Bath Place Hotel comprises a group of seventeenth century cottages surrounding a flagstone courtyard in the heart of Oxford. The cottages date back to the early sixteen hundreds and were originally built by Flemish weavers who were granted permission to build against the outside of the city wall. Prior to this it is believed that there was a communal well and bathhouse on the site.

The cottages nestle between New College (one of the oldest of the University) and Hertford College (established in the thirteenth century). Next to the hotel is Turf Tavern; the oldest inn in the city.
The hotel is on Holywell Street, toward the west end, across from The Music Room theater.
December 16, 2003
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The Bear, from Bear Lane, Oxford.
December 17, 2003
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Bistro Je t'aime, north side of Blue Boar Street, Oxford.
December 17, 2003
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Brewer Street looking east. Pembroke College is on the left, Champion Hall
on the right. The College is built of Cotswold stone.
December 19, 2003
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Exter College Chapel
December 17, 2003
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Exeter College West facade, Turl Street, looking south, winter mid-day.
December 17, 2003
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High Street, Oxford, across from the Bodelian Library. Catte Street is at our back. The Old Bank Hotel is at the left foreground.
December 15, 2003
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Holywell Street facades: East end of the street, south side.
December 16, 2003
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Buildings along the Isis (Thames) south of Christ Church College Meadow
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I'm pretty sure this is the view, at about 11 am, looking north up King Edward Street toward Brasenose College.
December 17, 2003
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New College entrance and tower. New College was founded in 1379, about 200 years after the University came into existence. It is one of the largest and best-known colleges, and, to its inhabitants, undeniably one of the most beautiful.
December 16, 2003
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Oxford from St. Mary's Church bell tower, looking west, late afternoon.
December 15, 2003
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Pigeons, chimneys, pinnacles, and pointers. Oxford, near Hertford College.
December 15, 2003
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Oxford University Colleges are concerned about keeping undesirables out...
December 16, 2003
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Christopher Wren's Sheldonian Theatre.
December 15, 2003.
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The Sheldonian Theatre, east elevation.
December 15, 2003.
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Looking east along Broad Street from in front of Trinity College.
At the left is the Clarendon Building, originally build to house the Oxford University Press printing works. OUP books still bear the "Clarendon Press" imprint, though this building has long been part of the Bodliean Library. It was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, a pupil of Christopher Wren, and built in 1712.

Center is the Sheldonian Theater, built 1664-1669, desinged by Christopher Wren when was 31, a professor of astronomy, and modeled after teh Marcellus Theratre in Rome. It was paid for by the Archbishop of Canterbury and university chancellor, Mr. Sheldon, and so in the ancient tradition, he purchased "naming rights."

A corner of the Museum of the History of Science at at the right.
December 15, 2003
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St. Peter-in-the-East church, predates 1086. Now the St. Edmund Hall Library since 1970. On Queen's Lane, off High Street.
December 16, 2003
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A turret, by Wolsey, 1527, under Wren's Tom Tower, Oxford.
December 15, 2003
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Wolsey's 1527 arch, under Tom Tower.
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Tom Tower, Christopher Wren, 1682, builey above Wolsey's 1527 archway and turrets. The bells chime on the local time, 5 minutes after GMT.
December 15, 2003
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