New College
Fourteenth-century college with a vast oak-beamed hall, linenfold panelling and medieval cloisters.
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This guide to New College in Oxford looks up at the hall roof and the much-retold tale of a college forester and a grove of oaks. It weighs the version the anthropologist Gregory Bateson loved to tell against the college archive's own records from the Victorian repair, and travels out to the Buckinghamshire woods the college has owned since the fifteenth century. Best heard standing in the hall, beneath the beams.
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