Oxford's Saxon Tower

Full name: THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST. MICHAEL AT THE NORTH GATE
with
ST. MARTIN AND ALL SAINTS

This is probably one of the oldest buildings in Oxford

The Saxon Tower of St Michael at the North Gate is nearly 1000 years old and is Oxford’s oldest building. This is the tower which could offer you a view of of Oxford-what Samuel Johnson referred to as the “city of dreaming spires”. But if you are as cheapskate as we are, then hit the meadows.

I have been there at least 2-3 times, this time to bring ET there. It is sad that many tourists just walk pass this boring looking building (when you compare to the others in Oxford!), without realising that this is probably the oldest public building on Oxford!

What attracted me, and brought me in, are the stained glass windows. It is not one of those wow wow stained glass work, but perhaps being OXFORD's City Church, it always have something to amuse you, be it a simple poem, or a some of words strung together to form a sentence. The war must have taken given a lot of pain here, and a lot of love have been etched here and there within this building in memory of some loved ones.

These caught my attention:

When you go home,
Tell them of us and say:
For your tomorrow
We gave our today.

That was something from the POWs.