Kate won a trip up Magdalen College tower a while back at a bushfire fund raiser held in Rhodes House. It is an impressive bell tower that stands on the City side of the river as you enter Oxford. The tower begun life in 1492 and stands 144 feet tall. It is usually not open to the public, but special permission can be obtained to get the key… now the key is something special
The trip up the tower is via a narrow staircase with a ladder for the last 8-10 feet. Once I got to the top, turning around and looking down at what I had come up made me guess as to why it’s not open to the public!
From the top, I think you get one of the best views of Oxford! Several more photos here. I think this is a particularly nice view because you are on the edge of Oxford, so you can see across all of what you are normally surrounded by.
Lovely eh? I think something that was special about this little trip up a little tower is that you get to see things that you normally don’t see from street level like these chaps…
What a waste of stonemason’s talent! We were told that most of the decorative work on these nice old buildings was not on the original plans, so it was the stonemason’s artistic licence. Needless to say with Magdalen tower, as with the rest of the college, they went to town…
Also in this batch of photos you’ll see dinosaurs with red noses…