'Tower in the Schools' Quadrangle', c1870. Tower of the Five Orders at the Bodleian Library in Oxford built between 1613 and 1619 and named after its ornamented columns of the five orders of classical architecture, in ascending order: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite. From "Picturesque Europe - The British Isles, Vol. II". [Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London, c1870]

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