Oxford Building Stones Walk
with Di Smith
Sunday September 21st 2003

Headington: quarry face in Rock Edge Nature Reserve (Corallian)

Kybald St: matching new (Chorpus Christi New Buildings) with old.

Doorway to Post Office, St Aldate’s: Wardour limestone and Shap Granite

Radcliffe Camera: Headington Hardstone plinth and Freestone rusticated lower stage; Taynton drum (with some Clipsham patching)

Taylorian Institution (Ashmolean Museum): Bath Box Ground facings and Portland columns

Martyrs Memorial: Mansfield Woodhouse Magnesian Limestone

Balliol facing St Giles’: Bath (rightmost ); then Yellow Guiting

St Michael’s, Cornmarket: Coral Rag

Thamnasteria in Coral Rag in wall N of Wadham