Magdalen College
Medieval college with a soaring bell tower where choristers sing to the dawn crowds every May Day.
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This guide to Magdalen College in Oxford looks up at its tower, whose roof turns into a stage at dawn on the first of May. It follows two men who made art from that morning: Benjamin Rogers, the seventeenth-century organist behind the hymn still sung there, and the Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt, who filled a canvas with real Magdalen faces. Best heard from the High Street or Magdalen Bridge, with the tower in view.
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