Oxford: Jericho Bound

Having walked up from our Abingdon Travel Lodge, we glimpsed Oxford Christ Church Cathedral  across sun-parched lawns:

 And through an arch:

Something like Jude Fawley may well have done.

A reception man at the Museum of Oxford then pointed us towards the Jericho district of Oxford. He kindly drew circles on a map to help us find the way.

 

And after a few minutes, we were in Oxford city centre:

 

Checking out side-streets for any signs for the way to Jericho:

Coming across a big, ornamental church:

Then, an opening to an academic cloister:

At one such cloister, a receptionist, gave us very precise directions to Jericho, we were pleased, we were almost halfway there, we were now more confident.

We passed the beautiful building below:

And suddenly, we were amongst some ancient-looking churches:

They seemed to have some real history to tell.

With the monument below being a memorial to Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer, all Protestant martyrs who were burnt at the stake in Oxford in 1555:

Those really were bloodthirsty days, with martyrdom occurring on both sides of the Catholic-Protestant  divide, a real sobering thought.

Very soon after, we saw the Ashmolean Museum (of Art and Technology):

 

We knew that this was well on the way to Jericho, and a kind man from up north, tour guiding for a group of EFL students, got his i-phone out and confirmed the way. We were on the right track.

 

Would've loved to have had time to look round the Ashmolean. It looked massive and grand:

But we were Jericho-bound, and the building below kind of waved us along:

We were about to enter Jude Fawley's district of the city, where he lived with Sue Bridehead and their doomed relationship (in Thomas Hardy's classic: Jude the Obscure).