A guide to Oxford architecture from the eleventh century to the present which focuses on buildings that exist today, and places them in their historical context. It is written for non-specialists as well as experts, visitors as well as residents. Arranged chronologically and copiously illustrated throughout, it is the only book of its kind.

Introduction; 1. Origins: 900-1350; 2. The Later Middle Ages; 3. From Reformation to Restoration; 4. The Age of Classicism; 5. A Century of Growth: 1750-1850; 6. Victorian Gothic; 7. Into the Twentieth Century; 8. From Modernism to Post-Modernism; Walks; Glossary; Acknoweldgements; Index

Geoffrey TyackDirector, Stanford University Centre in Oxford