I wanted to say more about Bodley's bit, the massive quadrangle, or Arts school, which is laden with more academic symbolism than a cathedral has cherubs. Its hallowed doorways bear the names of the names of the Liberal Arts (broken up, apparently, into the Trivium - logic, grammar and rhetoric - and the Quadrivium- arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, music. Plus philosophies and music. All in Latin. Of course.
Then there's the 'tower of the five orders, which displays the five classical orders of architecture, working up from the oldest: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite.
It's just so nerdy, I can't help loving it!
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