They also give two curiously different accounts of the skyline of Oxford: one as “towers,” the other as “spires.” The “dreaming spires” model of academic life is, we are told, a false ideal, a ...

Since it was founded in 1893, students at St Hilda’s College have glanced from its site overlooking the River Cherwell and Oxford’s botanic gardens towards a skyline of dreaming spires marking the ...

In his new solo exhibition Vantage Point, Christopher Farrell is setting out to explore Oxford, recording not only its iconic skyline but ... paintings with the spires? Can a painting represent ...

Some would argue this “city of dreaming spires” has become as notable ... and features a spectacular dome rising above Oxford’s skyline. When built in the mid-1700s, its unusual circular ...

Oxford was flushed with success ... awards for the best kept loos. The city of dreaming spires, famed for its eye-catching university skyline which attracts tens of thousands of tourists every ...

The Jolly Post Boys pub in south-east Oxford is doing a roaring trade for local craft beers: Steady Rolling Man, a brew from nearby Gloucestershire, is one of the pub’s biggest sellers ...

You can’t think about Oxford without thinking about the ... fill this great city and great bell towers and slim spires adorn the pretty skyline. The work of architects Christopher Wren, Nicholas ...

Campaigners protesting about six blocks of student flats which are a 'horrible eyesore' on a city skyline ... Oxford, as a 'terrible mistake' and claim it blocks the view of the city's famous spires.

Gort Scott has designed two new buildings for St Hilda’s, Oxford, with the Anniversary Building’s orthogonal turret helping it compete with the dreaming spires of the city’s older colleges ...