We wanted to have tea in the Ashmolean, but it was closed for repairs, so we sat in the garden of the Old Parsonage Hotel, looking out over the Denys Wilkinson building, one of Philip Dowson’s less lovely projects, designed in 1967 for the Department of Astrophysics:-

But we were consoled by the graveyard of the church of St. Giles and the fine architecture and unexpected rusticity of the street itself:-