All Souls College
Fifteenth-century college of fellows only, with a Gothic-fronted classical library and twin spires.
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This guide to All Souls College in Oxford stands you in front of its north quadrangle, where Nicholas Hawksmoor's Gothic-looking stone range hides a library with a strange timetable. It follows the money left in seventeen ten by Christopher Codrington, a Barbados-born governor whose fortune came from sugar plantations worked by enslaved people, and the craftsmen who turned that money into rooms. Look for the sundial Christopher Wren designed as a young fellow here.
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