Inscriptions: Peace stone at Carfax
The above peace stone is set in the north side of Carfax Tower, formerly part of St Martin’s Church. It proclaims the short-lived peace when Napoleon was imprisoned on Elba. It reads:
PEACE
was proclaimed
in the City of
OXFORD
June 27[?] 1814
There is a redundant explanatory stone below it:
THE STONE ABOVE
COMMEMORATES
THE PEACE OF
1814
Wikipedia: Treaty of Paris (1814)