The Queen's College
Medieval college behind a Baroque screen and cupola, still calling its members to dinner by trumpet.
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This guide to The Queen's College on Oxford's High Street goes back to the thirteen-seventies, when a northern college founded by a royal chaplain fell into a bitter feud over who deserved its fellowships. You'll meet the provost Henry Whitfield, the Cumbrian fellow Thomas Carlisle, and the Archbishop of York called in to referee. John Wycliffe, renting rooms here at the time, turns up too. Best heard on the pavement facing the domed gatehouse.
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