Tuesday, June 25, 2024

 Site: Oxford 

    We visited Christ Church College and Cathedral. This post is going to concentrate on pictures, but here is some trivia:

  • People have lived here at least since Saxon times.
  • Christ Church was founded by Cardinal Wolsey and taken over by Henry VIII.
  • It was Charles I's headquarters during the English Civil War. 
  • Alice Liddell, the girl that Alice in Wonderland was based on, lived in Christ Church because her father was the Dean.
  • The White Rabbit is based on Alice's chronically late father.


Saxon Tower





The formal entrance to Christ Church (not for visitors.)


The grounds of Christ Church


The Entry to the Great Hall

The Great Hall

The Quad


The Cathedral Ceiling



Stained glass designed by Pre-Raphaelite Edward Burne-Jones


Painted and stained glass depicting Jonah after being delivered from the whale.

Here's a selfie to prove I am really here

Monument to Protestant martyrs 

Concert Hall

The Bridge of Sighs (reproduction of the one in Venice)

Courtyard of the Bodelian Library


Radcliffe Camera



In the Ashmolean

1 comment:

  1. So much to see. Glad you are able to see it akk.

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