St Giles', Oxford

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Martyrs' Memorial at the southern end of St Giles'.

St Giles' is a wide street leading north from the centre of Oxford, England. To the north, the road divides into Woodstock Road to the left and Banbury Road to the right, both major roads through North Oxford.

Working from north to south, on the east side are the Lamb & Flag public house (formerly a coaching inn), St John's College, the Oxford Internet Institute (No 1 St Giles'), and Balliol College. On the west side are St Benet's Hall, the Theology Faculty, the Eagle and Child public house (where J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and other members of the Inklings met), Regent's Park College (Principal's Lodgings and Senior Tutor's house), Pusey House and St Cross College, Blackfriars, and the Taylor Institution, behind which is the Ashmolean Museum (with its main entrance in Beaumont Street). At the southern end is the Martyrs' Memorial (1843), commemorating the Oxford Martyrs (1555=56). At the northern end is St Giles' Church whose Churchyard includes the main War Memorial.