Carfax, Oxford

All Saints then became the library of Lincoln College, and St Michael at the North Gate became the City Church.

The tower is 74 feet (23 m) tall, and the City Council stipulates that no building in central Oxford may be built higher than it (a rule broken by the Blavatnik School of Government).

There is a clock that chimes the quarter hours on a pair of bells cast by John Taylor & Co of Loughborough in 1898.

[6] The clock's current dial and surroundings were designed by Sir TG Jackson and installed in 1898.

In 1865 William Henry Butler, who had been Mayor of Oxford in 1836, was buried in St Martin's churchyard in the grave of his first wife Elizabeth Briggs and their two infant daughters.

St Martin's tower (centre left) and the HSBC building (right), seen from the corner of High Street and St Aldate's
View from the top of St Martin's Tower