Corpus Christi College
Tudor college with a humanist founding, a twenty-seven-dial pelican sundial and garden beehives.
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This guide to Corpus Christi College in Oxford follows Richard Foxe, Bishop of Winchester and servant of two Tudor kings, in the years after Thomas Wolsey pushed him from power. It turns on a blunt conversation with his friend Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter, about what Foxe's last great project should be. Along the way you'll meet Erasmus, a hive of scholars, and the Pelican Sundial, so stand in the front quad where you can see the pillar.
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