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Oxford streets and colleges, many for John Betjeman, c. 1950

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MS. 16176 photogr. 35
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Comprises photographs of Oxford colleges and streets, all c. 1950, mounted on both sides (a and b) of black album leaves (print sizes in millimetres):
  1. (Item 1a) Christ Church: St Aldates, for John Betjeman (164 x 210)
  2. (Item 1b) Queen's College Hall, for John Betjeman (212 x 166)
  3. (Item 2a) Christ Church: Tom Quad, for John Betjeman (193 x 165)
  4. (Item 2b) Iffley Church, west end, for John Betjeman (160 x 208)
  5. (Item 3a) Christ Church: two shots: Burne-Jones window; Chapter House monk corbel, for John Betjeman (both approx. 210 x 150)
  6. (Item 3b) Two shots: New College Quad, tower entrance window (both approx. 155 x 113)
  7. (Item 4a) Old Ashmolean [now the History of Science Museum]; two shots: entrance and detail, for John Betjeman (143 x 104, 171 x 166)
  8. (Item 4b) Christ Church: Tom Quad, for John Betjeman (158 x 212)
  9. (Item 5a) Merton College: dormer windows (210 x 160)
  10. (Item 5b) Three shots: Oriel College, Christ Church Library, detail of decaying stonework, for John Betjeman (two approx. 90 x 110, one 137 x 195)
  11. (Item 6a) Radcliffe Camera, All Souls College from St Mary's (180 x 155)
  12. (Item 6b) Christ Church; Meadows (165 x 193)
  13. (Item 7a) All Souls College (165 x 203)
  14. (Item 7b) Two shots: Entrance tower to Christ Church, Christ Church Meadows (208 x 158, 196 x 164)
  15. (Item 8a) St John's College: Two shots: St Giles entrance: tower (both approx. 190 x 160)
  16. (Item 8b) St Giles, St John's College; Hertford College bridge (both approx 184 x 165)
  17. (Item 9a) Two shots: Stained glass window?; St John's chapel lecturn, for John Betjeman (147 x 112, 198 x 163)
  18. (Item 9b) Two shots: Turl Street and City Church, Jesus College Hall, for John Betjeman (180 x 162, 160 x 116)
  19. (Item 10a) Iffley Church: Two shots: Tower; Norman doorway, for John Betjeman (both approx. 203 x 153)
  20. (Item 10b) New College, City wall (164 x 198)
  21. (Item 11a) Queens College Chapel, for John Betjeman (212 x 166)
  22. (Item 11b) City Church from Turl Street (164 x 199)
  23. (Item 12a) All Souls College, Radcliffe Square (206 x 160)
  24. (Item 12b) Two shots: stained glass window, Library interior (214 x 160, 155 x 114)
  25. (Item 13a) Merton College Chapel (210 x 162)
  26. (Item 13b) St Edmund's Hall Quad (160 x 210)
  27. (Item 14a) St Edmund's Hall Quad (160 x 206)
  28. (Item 14b) Radcliffe Camera from St Mary's Church (188 x 163)
  29. (Item 15a) Two shots: Botanical Gardens entrance; interior, Examination Schools (137 x 110, 152 x 112)
  30. (Item 15b) Carved Cupboard, Queen's College? for John Betjeman, c. 1950 (195 x 164)
  31. (Item 16a) Details of a Carved Cupboard, Queens? for John Betjeman (187 x 140, 188 x 156)
  32. (Item 16b) Two shots: Magdalen College Quad; Chapel porch, for John Betjeman (both approx. 120 x 160)
  33. (Item 17a) Magdalen College: entrance porch, corner building, from John Betjeman (210 x 156, 116 x 151)
  34. (Item 17b) Magdalen College, Deer park; St Edmund's Hall (212 x 152, 168 x 152)
  35. (Item 18a) Iffley Church, for John Betjeman (210 x 163)
  36. (Item 18b) Magdalen College, near entrance, for John Betjeman (206 x 156)
  37. (Item 19a) New College Chapel (and unidentified chapel stained glass, originally listed as from Harris Manchester College but possibly New College), for John Betjeman (168 x 162, 152 x 112)
  38. (Item 19b) Two external shots: Bodleian Library Old Schools Quad and Divinity School (150 x 113, 113 x 159)
  39. (Item 20a) Sheldonian: Two shots: Stone Heads, for John Betjeman (160 x 120, 182 x 122)
  40. (Item 20b) Three shots: Two of the Bodleian Library; one of the Sheldonian, for John Betjeman (160 x 117, 118 x 176, 90 x 123)
  41. (Item 21a [there is nothing on the verso]) Two shots: Clarendon Building; City church from rooftops, for John Betjeman (212 x 158, 164 x 122)
  42. (Item 22a) Two shots: Radcliffe Square, St Mary's Church; Clarendon Building behind stone heads , for John Betjeman (both approx. 210 x 160)
  43. (Item 22b) Two shots: Sheldonian and Clarendon Building; ?Bodleian Library proscholium or college chapel, for John Betjeman (162 x 212, 160 x 115)
  44. (Item 23a) Three shots: ?Jericho or Paradise Square (all approx. 120 x 145)
  45. (Item 23b) Four shots of Railway Signal Box (all approx. 98 x 121)
  46. (Item 24a) Christ Church: Tom Tower from Tom Quad, for John Betjeman (164 x 213)
  47. (Item 24b) Christ Church: Tom Tower from St Aldates, for John Betjeman (158 x 202)

Dates

  • Creation: c. 1950

Extent

1 box

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MS. 16176 photogr. 35

Former reference:

Box 14a

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