St Giles' is a wide boulevard leading north from the centre of Oxford, England.[citation needed] At the northern end of St Giles' is St Giles' Church,[2] whose churchyard includes the main War Memorial.On the west side are the International Study Centre of d'Overbroeck's College, St Benet's Hall, the Theology Faculty, Oxford Quaker Meeting House, the Eagle and Child public house (where J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and other members of the Inklings met; No.42 was the register office where Lewis contracted a civil marriage in 1956 to Joy Davidman) and is now a dental practice, 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).The street is closed to traffic for two days each September for the traditional St Giles' Fair.
Southern end of St Giles' Street outside the west entrance to
Balliol College
.