Top Five Famous and Most Beautiful Libraries in Oxford University

Renowned as the city of dreaming spires, Oxford is the must-explored tourist site of the world. This medieval city showcasing instances from most important part of English history since the Saxon time period offers an assortment of architectural delights. Oxford Walking Tours the perfect option for visitors provide an exciting and breathtaking experience like never before with professional guides having in-depth knowledge about Oxford city, university, and college. Oxford's libraries have been rated as best in the UK by students. 

National Student Survey (NSS) conducted recently in 2015 shows that 97% of students at Oxford University are able to meet their needs with the help of libraries. Below described are some of the most popular libraries in this aesthetically eclectic and bustling city. 

Duke Humphrey’s Library-The Bodleian Libraries

Named after Humphrey of Lancaster, this library is well known for being the oldest reading room in Bodleian Library. Much of the things have been moved to Weston Library and today it is considered as an object of historical significance. It displays the portraits of most popular founder of individual colleges such as Dorothy Wadham, Lady Dervorguilla, and etc.   

Lincoln College Library

Library is one of the highly admiring features about the Lincoln College. It is the most beautiful and perfect exemplar of an amazingly structured and complete architectural design dating back to the 1700s.

The Upper Library -The Queen’s College

Personification of 18th century fin-de-siècle architecture, the Upper Library has been mentioned on many global lists for being the world’s most striking and beautiful reading room. Holding the greater beauty, the library has an incredible collection of around 100,000 volume-strong selections possessing wide range of subjects and rare books.

St Edmund Hall’s Library

Aesthetically pleasing library is the representative of complete college and consists of many desirable feature attracting great pleasure and horror. The library is a perfect epitome of medieval architecture and design surrounded by various elements of medievalism such as quadrangles, wells, and etc.   

The Radcliffe Camera -The Bodleian Libraries              

Radcliffe Camera most popularly known as “Rad Cam” is an admiring architectural masterpiece and an object of great wonder. Recognized as the symbol of Oxford, this famous site has been featured in many famous TV series such as Inspector Morse and mentioned by popular novelists J.R.R. Tolkien. Oxford Walking Tour takes you at this architecturally designed site along with highlighting all points of interest. 

Apart from these five, there are many oldest and new libraries in Oxford that possess an object of great historical, appealing architecture, literary and academic interest. The Upper Library -Merton College, The Codrington Library -All Souls College, and The Fellows’ Library -Jesus College are other popular libraries that are must-visit in Oxford Tours.