St Luke's Chapel doorway
the world on their shoulders
Magdalen gargoyle
Magdalen College gargoyle
blair grotesque
Magdalen grotesque
Magdalen College grotesque
shark attack on terraced house
shark attack on Oxford house
Oxford ox
pheasant thatch
Sheldonian head
Queen Charlotte garden
St Hilda's junk man
tin woodman?
Martyrs' Memorial
who's going to jump first?
gargoyles and grockle
spire of University Church
shark crashing through roof
Oxford Martyrs' Memorial
Statue of Drama
Bodleian gargoyle
Schola Logicae sculpture
Schola Logicae head sculpture
Schola Astronomiae sculpture
Schola Astronomie head
Schola Musicae sculpture
Scola Musicae stone head
Naturalis Philosophiae sculpture
Naturalis Philosophiae head
Bodleian head
Bodleian stone head
William Herbert
Bodleian angel
Schola Metaphysicae sculpture
Schola Metaphysicae head
Schola Lingvarvm sculpture
Geometriae et Arithmeticae sculpture
Grammaticae et Historiae sculpture
Grammaticae et Historiae head
Moralis Philosophiae sculpture
Moralis Philosophiae head
gathering shadows
Tyers Estate sculpture
Victoria Memorial
George II marble statue
George II statue
thanks to Sir Walter Raleigh
Crimean War Memorial
Crimea war memorial
Queen Charlotte statue
railway arch decoration
arch architecture
grotesque lion
grotesque lion
grotesque lion
grotesque lion
stone head
centaur grotesque
stone head
centaur grotesque
sursum bird sculpture
Kaikias the north-east wind
Sagittarius sign
Apeliotes the south-east wind
Hercules, Euros and Apeliotes
Euros the east wind
Notos the south wind
Libra the scales & Scorpio the scorpion
Virgo the virgin
Leo the lion
Cancer the crab
Gemini the twins
Taurus shadow
Taurus the bull
Aries the Ram
Pisces sign
Lips the south-west wind
Zephyros the west wind
Atlas and Hercules
globe on the Tower of the Winds
the south winds
south side of the tower
sunlight on the world
Coade stone panel
Coade stone panel
Sagittarius the Archer
Libra & Scorpio
Virgo sign
Leo sign
Cancer sign
Gemini sign
Taurus sign
Aries sign
Pisces the fish
Aquarius the water-bearer
Capricorn the Goat
the east wind
the south wind
the south-west wind
the west wind
the north-west wind
the north wind
the north-east wind
the south-east wind
fishy art by the river
old carving over church door
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"The figures of the Eight Winds appeared on the original Tower of the Winds in Athens and were used by the sculptor John Bacon (1740-99) as the basis for his designs for the flying figures round the top of the stonework of the Observatory. Bacon also designed the two statues (in cast iron) of Atlas and Hercules who support the globe on the roof. The condition of the Windrush stone of which the Eight Winds are made compares unfavourably with that of the Coade stone of the Zodiac and other figures below, which has successfully withstood the elements for two centuries."
www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/about/history/radcliffe-observatory
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