Christ Church Picture Gallery
Modernist gallery half-sunk beneath a college garden, holding Old Master paintings and drawings.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford opens on a Saturday night in March 2020, when burglars broke into a gallery that nobody standing in the quad could see. You'll hear about rooms sunk beneath the Deanery garden, the three paintings taken, and General John Guise, the soldier whose bequest of paintings and drawings built the collection. Best heard in the quad, looking for a doorway you won't spot at first.
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