When Knighton-Hammond visited Oxford in August 1924, he was presented with a feast of emblematic architecture. The artist set himself up in St Aldate’s to paint this watercolour featuring the façade of Tom Gate and Tower of Christ Church. This outstanding building was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and built 1681-82. The Tom Gate and Tower forms the main entrance to the Tom Quad. The streetscape ascending up the hill is a masterclass in linear perspective. The majestic architecture is not heavy on detail but on impression. The street is busy with figures, horse and cart, cycle, pram and dog all going about their business providing spontaneity and movement. The scale of the figures adds to the recession of the composition. The road in shade from the flanking buildings and is interrupted by the horizontal flashes of sunlight from the breaks in the buildings on the left from the intersecting streets Pembroke Square and Pembroke Street off St Aldate’s. A really clever interplay with light and shade. Working on the Continent at this time one can see that Knighton-Hammond is mastering urban streetscapes in an Impressionist style as is evident in this watercolour with his stylistic freedom of touch. The picture is a great achievement in drawing, composition and expressive story-telling.