Route
The Kilns › Holy Trinity Church › Windmill Road › Hillsboro House › Old High Street › Addison’s Walk › Magdalen College › University College › Bodleian Library › Keble College › The Lamb & Flag › The Eagle & Child
The Kilns
Lewis Close
The Kilns is Lewis’s home in the Oxford suburb of Headington Quarry from 10 October 1930 until his death on 22 November 1963. The Kilns is currently owned and operated by the C.S. Lewis Foundation, who runs it as the C.S. Lewis Study Centre.
Holy Trinity Church
46 Quarry Road
The Kilns is in the parish of Headington Quarry and Lewis attends Holy Trinity Church there with his brother Warren. The brothers always sit in the same pew, next to the column of St. George. Lewis is buried with his brother Warren in the cemetery of Holy Trinity Church.
Windmill Road
54 Windmill Road
June 1921, Lewis moves into the home of Janie and Maureen Moore and lives there with them until 1 August 1922. Then they move to Hillsboro House.
Hillsboro House
14 Holyoake Road
On 1 August 1922, Lewis and the Moores move from Windmill Road to Hillsboro House. They live here until they move to The Kilns on 10 October 1930.
Old High Street
10 Old High Street
August 1955, Joy, David and Douglas Gresham rent 10 Old High Street, one mile from The Kilns.
Addison’s Walk
Forested path beside a stream behind Magdalen College, named after the eighteenth-century poet and essayist Joseph Addison (1672-1719). On 19 September 1931, a conversation of Lewis with Hugo Dyson and J.R.R. Tolkien about myth, truth and Christianity leads to Lewis’s conversion from theism (belief in God) to Christianity.
Magdalen College
High Street
Lewis holds a fellowship English Language and Literature from 25 June 25 1925 to 3 December 1954 at Magdalen College, founded in the 15th century. Lewis’s rooms are in the New Buildings, erected in 1733.
University College
High Street
Lewis enters University College Oxford on 26 April 1917, having won a scholarship the previous December. He does not start studying because of the outbreak of the First World War. After the war, he returned to University College in January 1919, where he graduated on 4 August 1922. In 1924, Lewis taught philosophy at the college for a year, replacing the philosophy teacher at University College, E.F. Carritt.
Bodleian Library
Broad Street
The Bodleian Library is one of the oldest libraries in Europe and the library of the University of Oxford. It reposits one of the finest collections of C.S. Lewis manuscripts. Between 1944 and 1952 Lewis works regularly in the Duke Humfrey’s Medieval Library on his academic book ‘English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama’.
Keble College
Parks Road
May 1917, Lewis joines the Officer’s Training Corps (OTC) and stays at Keble College until the end of his OTC course on 25 September 1918.
The Lamb & Flag
12 St. Giles
The Inklings meet from 1939 to 1962 on Tuesday mornings in the Rabbit Room in The Eagle and Child pub, but they move to the Lamb and Flag pub at the other side of the street in 1962 when the Rabbit Room is made part of the main bar.
The Eagle & Child
49 St. Giles
The Eagle and Child is the Oxford pub where the Inklings meet beginning in 1939. The Inklings meet in a little back room (the Rabbit Room) on Tuesday mornings until 1962 when the Rabbit Room is made part of the main bar. The group then moves to the Lamb and Flag at the other side of the street.