Keble College
Victorian college of striped polychrome brick, set around a sunken lawn on a former quarry site.
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This guide to Keble College in Oxford starts on the lawn of Liddon Quad in two thousand fifteen, just after a complete re-turfing that left it looking, in the words of the man who ran the job, absolutely fabulous. It reaches back to the ground beneath the quad, to the architect William Butterfield and his plans, and to a Warden's wife writing in her diary in eighteen seventy-one. Best heard standing at the edge of the sunken lawn.
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