Oriel College
Royal-founded college with a Jacobean quad, fan-vaulted gate and statues of kings over the hall porch.
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This guide to Oriel College in Oxford starts with the stone founder king above the hall door, then slips back to around fourteen eleven, when the Archbishop of Canterbury came to hunt Lollard heretics and the university shut its doors on him. You'll meet the Oriel dean and proctor named as ringleaders, and fellows who brawled with other scholars and mocked the archbishop's censures. Best heard standing in the front quad, facing the hall porch.
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