Christ Church
Tudor college and cathedral behind a Wren-designed gate tower whose great bell tolls nightly.
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This guide to Christ Church in Oxford stands you beneath Tom Tower and follows the tradesmen behind the bell that sounds there every night. It reaches back to the cracked bell brought from Osney Abbey and to Richard Keene, a founder from Woodstock who took on the job in the sixteen seventies. You'll also meet the Burford stonemason who actually built Christopher Wren's tower. Best heard on St Aldate's, facing the gate.
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