Past event

Oxford Open Doors

Location
Lady Margaret Hall
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A grand Edwardian building overlooks a quad with a large green lawn.

Welcome to Lady Margaret Hall

With the theme this year being ‘Architecture’, our buildings present some fine examples of architectural styles including Victorian Gothic, Queen Anne and Neo-Georgian. Our Chapel is a fine example of Byzantine style, which is open to visitors. Visitors are also welcome to visit our alumni gallery on the main corridor of Deneke.

Our Library is open today and features an exhibition “The Book as Object: selected antiquarian items from LMH Library”.

We also hope you find time to enjoy a walk around our gardens to connect with nature. Biodiversity Tour guides are available here, or you can borrow one from the Lodge.

You can download a map of the College via the link below.

We hope you enjoy your visit!

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A grand Edwardian building with intricate windows overlooks a garden with purple flowers in the foreground.

Architects of LMH buildings

Location: Montgomery Room

Discover more about the architects of some our buildings and the history behind them. 

Find out about Raymond Erith, designer of our library, plus Sir Reginald Blomfield, architect to LMH for 30 years and designer of Wordsworth, Talbot Hall, Toynbee and Eleanor Lodge. Sir Blomfield also drew up the first designs of the LMH gardens.

A black and white symmetrical illustration with 'De-Sun' text in the centre

Exhibition: “The Book as Object”

Location: Library

Invites you to look at the physical book, not to marvel at its beauty, but to consider what the physicality of a book can tell us about its readers and its creators.  

Their physical forms are not just valuable because they are old,  but because they represent records of use, evidence of change and traces of lives that encountered them. In studying the material side of books, we can learn how texts moved through time, and how the physical book, especially in its imperfections, tells the story of the people who engaged with it.

A black and white photo of the interior of a Chapel, with high ceilings and a large round window on the far wall

Chapel and Alumni Gallery

Location: Deneke

Visit our Byzantine style Chapel plus our alumni gallery and discover more about our alumni including Nigella Lawson, Bridget Kendall, Benazir Bhutto and Founder of Save the Children Eglantyne Jebb.

 

A red-brick Edwardian building with symmetrical architecture overlooks a sunken garden with an armillary sphere in the centre

LMH gardens

Enjoy a walk around our gardens.

Biodiversity tour booklets are available to borrow from the Porters Lodge or you can scan the QR code at the main desk.

Children should be supervised near the river.