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A phone shot of the wonderful 'Green Man' carving on a door halfway along the St Mary's passage entrance to the Radcliffe Square in Oxford. This building used to be a historic pub called the City Arms but now it's been incorporated into Brasenose College.
From richardslondontours.co.uk : "Tradition holds that C.S.Lewis was attending a service in the adjacent church one cold winter's night when he had to leave.
Making his way out to the back door of the church, he had to push his way out through the coats that were hanging there.
Having done so, he found himself in the alleyway you will be standing in, with a lamp post to his right, two magnificent satyrs adorning the porch opposite, and the face of a Green Man, looking very much like a lion, at the centre of the door.
It was one of those moments when literary history was made. For he later incorporated the scene into The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe with Edward, going through the hanging clothes into Narnia to meet with Mr. Tumnus."
Plenty more square format shots over on on my Instagram : instagram.com/dgphotos.co.uk/
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UK - Oxford - St Marys Passage - Green Man carving_sq sepia_IMG4004
My Website : Twitter : Facebook : Instagram : Photocrowd
A phone shot of the wonderful 'Green Man' carving on a door halfway along the St Mary's passage entrance to the Radcliffe Square in Oxford. This building used to be a historic pub called the City Arms but now it's been incorporated into Brasenose College.
From richardslondontours.co.uk : "Tradition holds that C.S.Lewis was attending a service in the adjacent church one cold winter's night when he had to leave.
Making his way out to the back door of the church, he had to push his way out through the coats that were hanging there.
Having done so, he found himself in the alleyway you will be standing in, with a lamp post to his right, two magnificent satyrs adorning the porch opposite, and the face of a Green Man, looking very much like a lion, at the centre of the door.
It was one of those moments when literary history was made. For he later incorporated the scene into The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe with Edward, going through the hanging clothes into Narnia to meet with Mr. Tumnus."
Plenty more square format shots over on on my Instagram : instagram.com/dgphotos.co.uk/
© D.Godliman