It is quite a treat to stay in Magdalen:-
To walk through to the fifteenth-century cloister:-
Then through to the New Building, designed by Edward Holdsworth, a Jacobite classicist who would have become a Fellow had he been willing to take the oath of allegiance to the Crown, with help from Gibbs who was paid 20 guineas for his advice:-
And back to the Chapel:-

There can be few more dramatic sequences of buildings so close to a city centre in Europe.




I really like your B+W photos..
Thank you ! It’s an amazing medium for disguise. Charles
New Building is so exceptional that it is easy to overlook how beautiful are the Cloister and the Chapel.