Reading Eleanora Pistis’s excellent new book, Architecture of Knowledge: Hawksmoor and Oxford, has made me look at early eighteenth-century Oxford with new interest.  One of the things that would never have crossed my mind is that the second quadrangle at University College was built from 1716-1719 out of a legacy from John Radcliffe who must be one of Oxford’s greatest benefactors – the Radcliffe Camera, the Radcliffe Observatory, the Radcliffe Infirmary – and this, which he insisted should be ‘answerable to the front already built’.

Here it is:-

Here he is, as sculpted by Francis Bird in 1719:-

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