St Michael at the North Gate
Saxon stone lookout tower of rubble walls, with a martyr's cell door and rooftop city views.
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This guide to St Michael at the North Gate in Oxford reads its Saxon tower as a physical object: the rough local stone, the thick walls and the corners that hold it together, raised around the time the town feared Viking raids. It also turns to the vanished North Gate, the Bocardo prison above it, and Thomas Cranmer in fifteen fifty-six. Best heard on Cornmarket, looking up at the tower's corners.
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