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Day 2912, 4 June 2026
St Anne's church Limehouse, London
Not quite a worm's eye view, more a Dachshund's eye view
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Day 2912, 4 June 2026
St Anne's church Limehouse, London
Not quite a worm's eye view, more a Dachshund's eye view
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A delightful summer's day touring Oxford's history with some of my Oxford students
On Friday I met up with my brilliant tutor group for the Advanced Diploma in Local History and gave them a tour of some of the lesser-known historical highlights of Oxford in its churches and colleges.
We started appropriately with one of Oxford's oldest buildings, the church of St Michael at the Northgate, with its Anglo-Saxon tower, rivalled only by the one at Oxford Castle. St Michael's has some fragments of medieval glass, like this angel:
We next popped into Lincoln College to see the magnificent 17th century glass windows commissioned by Archbishop John Williams with the famous image of Jonah and the Whale:
We then visited the university church of St Mary the Virgin with its ornate baroque Laudian porch (defaced by the roundheads during the civil war) and saw the pillar where Archbishop Cranmer was chained. There was a nice memorial stone to all the Oxford martyrs, both Catholic and Protestant.
All Souls followed with its magnificent view of the Radcliffe Camera, towers by Hawksmoor, ornate clock (augmented by crane in this photograph!) and some more very fine medieval glass.
We stopped for tea and cake at the Grand Cafe where I celebrated passing my viva (now with idiosyncratic slavic-style customer service) before finishing off with Magdalene College, with its gargoyles, free-standing medieval statues in the white hydrangea filled cloister which I liked to think inspired its fellow C.S. Lewis (Oscar Wilde another alumni).
Having enjoyed hearing the choir practising while we toured the cloister and visited the gardens and the river, we finished off in the chapel before heading home.
The chapel contains a John Piper window and a striking west window of 17th century sepia glass of the last judgement, contemporary with the Lincoln windows.
On our way home we passed the carving of a faun and a lampost said to have inspired C.S. Lewis. There is such a wealth of historical detail in Oxford to inspire anyone!
It’s been ages since I’ve made some gravlax (based on the linked recipe), and I decided to make some for brunch this past Sunday. I enjoyed it Delmonico-style, in which I prepare all kinds of toppings to go on buttered sourdough toast. I first learned about this particular style of preparation from Hawksmoor at Home, and this was so easy that I need to make this more frequently because it’s so good!
Of course, tropes other than beads and nightmare have been used to describe this kind of writing. “A nest of Chinese boxes” (“Great God Pan,” in Child, Dark Company 119)—stories within stories, repetitions in different guises of essentially similar phenomena—is Arthur Machen’s self-conscious label for his narrative of the repeated eruptions in nature of the terrible force he calls Pan, a force of decreation, withering, meltdown, and death. Frequently evoked also is the vivid metaphor of labyrinth, or, in Peter Ackroyd’s more pointed version, “mazes of the serpent.”
—Roger B. Salomon, Mazes of the Serpent: An Anatomy of Horror Narrative
The magnificent entrance to St Michael Cornhill, one of many secret churches, hidden away between skyscrapers, in the City of London.
Like many, the original medieval church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and replaced by this building designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor and subsequently Victorianised!
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WIP - Another palace and another fire, this is a massively truncated idea of Wren and Hawksmoor's plan for Whitehall Palace.
Christ Church, Spitalfields, London
Is it too early to start thinking about a @hawksmoornyc power lunch? NO! Aged rump steak frites, whole baked sea bream and seasonal sour cherry cheesecake are all on the lunch menu now; and potted beef is a great way to start off the meal. Beef & Liberty: the perfect breakup to a monotonous work day. #hawksmoor #lunch #powerlunch #steakfrites #steak #steaks #food #meat #beef #eeeeeats #forkyeah #pottedbeef #yorkshirepudding #cheesecake #steakhouse #🥩 #🐟 #🍰 #beefandliberty #fries #frenchfries #frites #chips (at Hawksmoor NYC) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClQ_2d7urq6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=