Wadham College
Seventeenth-century college on a former friary site, its quad framed by a carved royal frontispiece.
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This guide to Wadham College in Oxford begins on a summer day in sixteen ten, as university doctors and the town's mayor gather on an old friary site to watch a first stone laid. It follows the money behind the founding: a Somerset squire's fortune, the widow left to spend it, the relatives with claims of their own, and a city council with land to sell. Stand in the front quad, facing the carved frontispiece.
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