Christ Church was originally founded by Cardinal Wolsey as Cardinal’s College in 1524. The college buildings took over the site of St. Frideswide’s Monastery, which was suppressed by Wolsey to fund his college
The monastery dated back to the earliest days of Oxford as a settlement in the 9th Century AD. When Wolsey fell from power [...]
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Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Oxford 2014
Christ Church Oxford
16 Comments CherryPie on Mar 10th 2015
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Winchester 2014
Behind the Chapel…
…lies an older place of worship.
10 Comments CherryPie on Dec 10th 2014
