Oxford Open Doors 2025 Drop-in Events | Oxford Preservation Trust

Saturday and Sunday

Visitors look up in a brightly lit church interior converted into archive storage with tall glass cases full of books.

Balliol College Historic Collections Centre

A stone chapel building lit from within in a garden at dusk.

Bartlemas Chapel

Castle Mound at Oxford Open Doors

An Edwardian barge with oval windows, pilasters and a flight of steps leading up to a flat roof.

Corpus Christi College Barge

A leafy driveway leading up to a domestic house, with balloons and an Oxford Open Doors poster.

Energy Saving Homes

A bridge over a canal with towpaths and trees on either side.

Isis Lock, South Oxford Canal

A medieval stone building with arched windows and a tower behind, viewed through a stone cloister looking out onto a lawn.

Magdalen College

The archway of a medieval gatehouse with a vaulted ceiling and a stone college building beyond.

A blue Mini drives towards the camera beneath a black sign with Welcome written in white.

MINI Plant Oxford

North Hinksey Conduit House

North Hinksey Conduit House

A stone building with crenellations and a carved inscription reading County Hall A.D. MDCCCXLI

Old County Hall

A table with Oxford Archaeology branding and a clear case containing pottery fragments.

Oxford Archaeology

A cream-coloured buildings around a courtyard, with a minaret in the background.

Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies

A sandy-coloured church with tower and steeple in a walled churchyard.

Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS)

Image of a church interior with wall paintings and a sculpted reredos.

The Oxford Oratory

A garden with tables and chairs in dappled shade, viewed from beneath a stone portico.

Oxford Quaker Meeting House

Two people looking at the wall paintings at the painted room

The Painted Room

A grassy garden between a large stone college building and a chapel.

Pembroke College

A woman in a stripey top held a girl scrape excess paint off a silk-screen printing frame. They are surrounded by paint pots and a boy looks over the girl's shoulder.

Ready, Steady, Print!

A firefighter crouching to help a boy and a girl direct a firehose.

Rewley Road Fire Station

A section of moveable railway bridge in a green area next to a channel of water.

Rewley Road Swing Bridge

Photograph of a red brick building with semi-circle shaped white windows and a blue sign.

South Oxford Community Centre

A white and red brick church building with a central circular window and a tower with a green roof to its right.

St Barnabas Jericho

A church with rounded arched windows and a tower.

St Clement's Church

The exterior of a brick-built church in a grassy churchyard.

St Frideswide Church

A man walks down a pathway into a churchyard.

St Giles' Church

A church interior with a red carpeted altar area and a large crucifix suspended above.

St John the Evangelist Church, New Hinksey

A seventeenth-century stone quadrangle viewed from beneath an entrance arch.

St John's College

A stone church with a tower and terracotta-coloured roof tiles. A sculpted stone cross on a post is in the foreground.

St Mary and St John Church

A stained glass window with a lamb, angels and saints, lit by sunlight in a dark church interior.

St Thomas the Martyr

Stone Carvers

Stone Carvers at Oxford Castle

Two crocus flowers in the foreground of a garden with an eighteenth-century house in the background.

Turn Again Lane Garden

A stone church with arched tracery and a tall stone spire.

University Church of St Mary the Virgin

A terraced row of brick Victorian houses, with a modern building in the centre, with green copper-framed windows and rust-coloured metal cladding.

Vishuddha Yoga Centre

Picture of a dark strone archway of a gatehouse with two people looking out into a courtyard with another stone building in the background.

Saturday Only

The interior of a modern curved concrete building with a curved staircase and wooden floor.

Blavatnik School of Government

A man helps a woman operate a historic printing press in a workshop with wooden shelves.

Bodleian Libraries - Old Bodleian Printing Workshop

A man touches the edge of a page of a very large book, held in a cradle and lit by a very bright light.

Bodleian Libraries - Pop-up Imaging Services Discovery Station

A women leans over a table to look at a series of historic maps on display.

Bodleian Libraries - Pop-up Maps Discovery Station

A group of visitors watch as a guide gestures towards a row of historic portraits in a room with large bright windows.

Bodleian Libraries - Weston Library Portraits Tours

Close-up photograph of three brass instruments being played.

City of Oxford Silver Band

A boy has a go at stone carving with a chisel and mallet, with three adults standing watching next to an English Heritage Conservation in Action van.

Craft skills at the Castle with Cliveden Conservation

A large building made of sand-coloured stone with large windows, multiple chimneys and an ornate porch.

Examination Schools

A modern church building with blue chairs laid out towards a stage with a wooden canopy.

First Church of Christ, Scientist

A long path through a formal garden leading to a stone building with gatetower.

Harris Manchester College

A black and white photograph of a woman laughing. Her hands are clasped together and she is leaning against a wooden panel containing a door.

Holywell Music Room - Oxford International Song Festival

A old stone building with small leaded windows adjacent to a modern building made from stone of the same colour with large panes of glass.

A 1750s map of Oxford covering the area around Holywell Street and University Parks.

A group of people sitting around a table creating a zine.

Makespace Oxford, Park End Street

A large stone interior with a barrel vaulted roof and stained glass windows. Long wooden tables and chairs fill the room.

Mansfield College

A photograph of a restored wooden medieval window, with lighter coloured wood where the tracery has been replaced.

Medieval Merchant's House, Abingdon

A guide in an orange shirt points at a history display during a tour to members of the public.

Museum of Oxford

A stone building with a wooden gabled door facing a tarmacked street.

Newman's College

Photo of a street with market stalls covered by white marquees and a lamppost sign reading North Parade Market.

North Parade Market

A row of five pipettes hanging in a laboratory.

Old Road Campus Research Building

A black modern building with a large full height window and sweeping landscaping.

Oxford Brookes University

A man wearing a hat that says inspector looks at the camera inside a vintage bus with a white ceiling.

Oxford Bus Museum - Heritage Buses

The silhouette of a printing press on a multicoloured background.

Oxford Printmakers Co-operative Ltd

A side-on view of a cream timber frame building with regular black windows.

Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy

Real Tennis Court

Oxford University Tennis Club (Real Tennis)

Oxfordshire Craft Guild at Oxford Town Hall

A poster for a concert by Pavlova Wind Quintet with sepia image of a street with a stone tower and shop buildings of different heights.

Pavlova Wind Quintet at St Michael at the North Gate

The side view of a one-storey church with semicircular windows and a small bell turret.

St Alban's Church

A building with regular rectangular windows and a stone crest above the door set in grassy grounds.

St Anne's College – Architecture & Library

A wood-panelled church chancel with high windows on three sides and a wooden cross on a table in the centre.

St Columba's United Reformed Church

A Norman rounded doorway into a stone church with arched windows above.

St Ebbe's Church

A picture of a white single-storey church building with a circular front window and a brown roof.

St Francis of Assisi CE Church

A church with a stone tower and white walls.

St James CE Church

A chapel interior with bright white walls and dark wooden roof beams, with a conference style table in the centre.

St Luke's Chapel

St Michael at the North Gate

St Michael at the North Gate

A library with tall bookcases, a balcony, an oil portrait of a man and a chandelier.

Taylor Institution Library

A grassy quadrangle surrounded by large stone buildings including a gatehouse.

University College

The pointed spire of a stone church

Wesley Memorial Methodist Church

The facade of a seventeenth-century stone built manor house with large symmetrical windows, three dormers and an ornate carved entrance way.

Yarnton Manor and Library

Sunday Only

A pale stone building with towers and pinnacles set around a green lawn on a sunny day.

All Souls College

A building with a grey roof and walls striped with two different colours of stone. A tall stone tower points up into a blue sky.

Balliol College

A community garden with plants and trees of different heights and shades of green. A bathtub is used as a planter.

CANCELLED Barracks Lane Community Garden

A group of musicians gather around a table with tankards, a candlestick and sheet music.

Bodleian Libraries - Ballads at the Bodleian

A room with an elaborate fan vaulted ceiling and wooden benches on either side.

Bodleian Libraries - Divinity School

A church tower with a clock and crenellations at the top on a city street corner.

A row of blue, cream and green classic cars parked in from of Oxford Castle and Prison.

Classic Cars at the Castleyard

A sandy-coloured stone building with a gatehouse set around a paved courtyard with a column supporting a clock at the centre.

Corpus Christi College

Ghaetta Band

Ghaetta Medieval Band

A yellow stone observatory building set in a garden with grass verges and blossoming purple wisteria.

Green Templeton College

The central part of an orange brick building with pediment containing a circular window, an open cupola, and a domed ground floor doorway.

Lady Margaret Hall

Lucy

Lucy’s – Lucy Group Ltd, Past and Present

A wooden bridge in a leafy garden with white rails.

Magdalen College School Gardens

A stone chapel building with large windows and pinnacles, set around a oval lawn and against a bright blue sky.

A stone conduit cover with ornate sculptural detail, including statues and the lettering O N O N.

Nuneham Park, Nuneham Courtenay

A white 1930s building with green lawns in front and blue skies behind.

Photo of a low wood-panelled building constructed over a canal.

Osney Lock Hydro

Oxford Castle

Oxford Castle and Prison

A photograph of the interior of a synagogue with a torah ark, cream walls and a purple carpet.

Oxford Jewish Congregation

A Bailey Bridge over a river in the late afternoon sun.

Port Meadow Bailey Bridge Talk

A large stone building with two wings and a central columned entrance.

A semicircular stone building with a cupola with a green copper roof.

Sheldonian Theatre

A concrete platform with a tree growing through it and woodland surrounding it.

A red brick library building with stone bay windows and a large lawn in front.

Somerville College

A sand-coloured stone building with gables and climbing foliage set around a grassy courtyard.

A 12th-century church with carved stone arches in a grassy churchyard.

St Mary's Church, Iffley

A wide path through a grassy area, leading to a seventeenth-century stone building with a tower, windows with rounded arches and an arched passageway through the building.

Trinity College

Worcester College

Worcester College

A black and white photograph of a 21-person chamber choir standing in a church with a black and white tiled floor.

vOx Chamber Choir

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A guide in an orange shirt points at a history display during a tour to members of the public.

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OPT team with balloons at OPT hub

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A group of visitors walk through a seventeenth-century quadrangle of an Oxford college.

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