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  Christ Church, Oxford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Christ Church is the only college in England which is also a cathedral (the smallest in England, and the seat of the Bishop of Oxford).
Its corporate title is The Dean, Chapter and Students of the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford of the Foundation of King Henry the Eighth, and the Visitor of the House is the reigning British Sovereign.
Christ Church's sister college in the University of Cambridge is Trinity College, Cambridge, founded the same year by Henry VIII.
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 Station Information - Christ Church, Oxford
Christ Church is one of the largest and wealthiest of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
It is the only college which is also a cathedral (the smallest in England, and the seat of the Bishop of Oxford) and its corporate title is The Dean, Chapter and Students of the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford of the Foundation of King Henry VIII.
Christ Church has produced 13 British prime ministers (the most recent being Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1963-1964), which is more than all the other colleges of Oxford and Cambridge combined.
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 University of Oxford
Oxford is, like Cambridge and others, a member of the Coimbra Group, a network of leading European universities, and the LERU (League of European Research Universities).
Oxford is a collegiate university, consisting of the university's central facilities, such as departments and faculties, libraries and science facilities, and 39 colleges and 7 permanent private halls (PPHs).
Duns Scotus' Oxford is one of Gerard Manley Hopkins' better-known poems.
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 Christ Church, Oxford
Christ Church (in full: The Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford of the Foundation of King Henry VIII) is one of the largest and wealthiest of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Christ Church is the only Oxford college which is also a cathedral (the smallest in England, and the seat of the Bishop of Oxford), and its corporate title is The Dean, Chapter and Students of the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford of the Foundation of King Henry VIII.
Christ Church has produced 13 British prime ministers (the most recent being Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1963-1964), which is more than any other Oxford or Cambridge college.
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 Christ Church College, Oxford University
Christ Church is the largest of the Oxford University colleges.
In 1545 the dean of the college, "gave" the college and all its possessions to the king.
The church of St. Frideswide in one stroke became the chapel of Christ Church and the Cathedral of Oxford.
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 Bishop of Oxford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bishop of Oxford is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Oxford in the Province of Canterbury.
The see is in the City of Oxford where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Christ which was elevated to cathedral status in 1546, and which (uniquely among English dioceses) is also the chapel of Christ Church College, Oxford.
The Bishop's residence is Diocesan Church House, Oxford.
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 Oxford walks: Outer circuit
Oxford was already linked to London via the Thames, and by connecting with the canal network in the midlands and north a continuous network would join London with the great industrial centres of the north west.
St Barnabas Church was built in the 1860's, funded by Thomas Combe who was the manager of the University press in Jericho, and a zealous proponent of the anglo-catholic movement.
Distinguished from the Broad Church movement, who sought a middle road between catholicism and the free churches, and from the Evangelical movement which emphasised personal faith based on the gospels, the tractarians stressed the direct line of descent from the apostles to the institutions of the contemporary established church.
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 Christ Church - Needham: The History of Christ Church in Needham Page
The name Christ Church was chosen in honor of Christ Church College of Oxford University in England where the Rev. Pember had been ordained as an Anglican priest.
Christ Church, as it exists today, is located on one and one-half acres of land at the corner of Rosemary Street and Highland Avenue.
Christ Church owns the 77-space parking lot across from the main church on Highland Avenue and two residences: the rectory on Homestead Park and a house on Rosemary Street adjacent to the church.
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 Christ Church Oxford University UK - home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
The spacious College Library is an important resource centre, primarily intended to provide undergraduate readers with the books they need for their studies.
This interest is increased by Christ Church's unique status as a cathedral and a college of the University of Oxford: the clergy and aristocrats associated with the foundation in the 16th, 17th and 18th century were all lavish in their gifts to the Library.
The first Christ Church Library opened in 1562, and was housed in the former refectory of St Frideswide's Priory.
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 Pusey, Edward Bouverie on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Having studied at Christ Church College, Oxford, Pusey was elected a fellow of Oriel College (1823) and thus became associated with John Keble, John Henry Newman, and their group.
In 1828 he was ordained an Anglican priest, was made regius professor of Hebrew at Oxford, and was appointed canon of Christ Church, a position he retained for the rest of his life.
His influence in the High Church party was widened when he was suspended from preaching for two years because of the ideas expressed in his sermon, “The Holy Eucharist, a Comfort to the Penitent” (1843).
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 Christ Church, Oxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Christ Church is the only Colleges of Oxford UniversityOxford college which is also a cathedral (the smallest in England, and the seat of the Bishop of Oxford), and its corporate title is ''The Dean, Chapter and Students of the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford of the Foundation of King Henry VIII''.
In 1531 the college was itself suppressed, and refounded in 1532 as King Henry VIII's College''' by Henry VIII of EnglandHenry VIII, to whom Wolsey's property had escheated.
Christ Church's List of Oxbridge sister collegessister college in the University of Cambridge is Trinity College, Cambridge, founded the same year by Henry VIII.
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 Christ Church Cathedral & College Choir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, is unique in being both a diocesan cathedral and a college chapel.
In 1546 the monastery, after having served as a priory and Cardinal College, was united with the See of Oxford and established as Christ Church Cathedral by King Henry VIII.
The boys are educated at the Christ Church Cathedral School, situated opposite the college on its own grounds.
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 Oxford Information - The Scholar's Guide to Oxford, UK. Tourist information for visitors to the University city of ...
Each year, the Norrington table ranks Oxford colleges in order of academic excellence, with colleges scoring points according to the performance of their undergraduates in that year's Final Examination.
Since University College dropped their long standing claim to have been founded by Alfred the Great in the 9th century, Merton College is recognised as the oldest college in Oxford.
The college was founded on an endowment from Nicholas Wadham and his formidable wife Dorothy oversaw the establishment of the college in a period of just four years.
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 Christ Church, Oxford - Review - Saints and White Rabbits
Christ Church is neither the oldest nor the most attractive College in Oxford but it is surely the grandest, just as its original founder Cardinal Wolsey intended.
Frideswide, believed to be a Saxon princess who is the patron saint of Oxford, is thought to have been the abbess of the double monastery based where Christ Church now stands (700) which is where Oxford first began to exist.
Christ Church Picture Gallery can be visited apart from the college by using the back entrance of the college in Oriel Square.
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 Christ Church Oxford University UK - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
This twelfth century church is amongst the oldest buildings in Oxford, and one of the smallest Anglican cathedrals in England.
It is also the only church in the world to be both a cathedral and a college chapel.
and the entrance is by the main gate to the college.
www.chch.ox.ac.uk /cathedral   (256 words)

  
 Part V: Stratford, Warwick & Oxford
Oxford University is made up of 39 separate colleges, of which Christ Church is the largest.
Alice was the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church.
One of Oxford's oldest pubs, it acted as the lodgings of the Chancellor of the Exchequer during the English Civil War (1642 - 49), when Oxford was the Royalist capital.
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 CHRIST CHURCH COLLEGE
With nature going on both inside and outside of the college walls we will start inside and work our way out to the best part of Christ Church; the Meadow.
Christ Church Meadow is an experience all its own.
I wonder if I would take advantage of the natural setting at Christ Church if I were one of its students or if I would even take notice of it.
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 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Harry keeps Rowling on
Especially when it reaches the venerable and maybe toffee-nosed quadrangles of Christ Church college, Oxford, where the smoke of battle over state school admissions lingers.
Who is tweaking the solemn ears of the college's bowler-hatted gents with a marvellous recall of Christ Church's 13 prime ministers and 11 governor generals of India?
Go on the Christ Church tour (and very good it is), and you will find the custodians completely converted: mines of information on where young Potter sat for meals, which table was Gryffindore House's and which Slytheryn's.
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 Christ Church College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
christ church is supposed to be the oxford of oxford...
Christ Church has a reputation for being the poshest college in Oxford, although I think that its independent to state school ratio is about average.
Christ Church was once one of my favourite colleges, mainly because it was the best known college (how dull).
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 2730. C A Simpson, Dean, Christ Church College, Oxford. Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations. 1988   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
C A Simpson, Dean, Christ Church College, Oxford.
It is a rare thing for a student to be taught by only one tutor.
If he should by rare chance have been indoctrinated by Mr A, he will certainly be liberated by Mr B. Answering charge that US students at Oxford might acquire a preference for the British system, Saturday Evening Post 23 Mar 63
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 Richest Oxford College - Oxford Guide
...Oxford, Oxford Brookes University and the Oxford College of Further Education provide.....part of the South East region - one of the richest and most accessible areas of...
Why has New College, one of the richest, slipped from 4th place in the Oxford league in 1997 to 11th in 2001/2 (28th in the 'stockmarket...
He named it after John the Baptist, patron saint of tailors, and endowed it with hundreds of acres of land in North Oxford and elsewhere, thereby making it the richest college in Oxford...
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 Christ Church College
Canterbury Christ Church College is a College of Higher Education.
From Christ Church College it is only a few minutes walk to the city centre.
The college through its Accomodation Officer can organise bed and breakfast accomodation at a cost of £ 45, meals are available at the College at a cost of around £ 3.
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 Christ Church Oxford University UK - Home
Christ Church is one of the largest colleges in the University of Oxford and, at the same time, the Cathedral Church of the Diocese of Oxford.
If you are already a member of Christ Church, there is a wealth of information here for students, staff, and alumni.
Whatever your interest in Christ Church, do not hesitate to contact us with your questions, or with suggestions for improvements to the site.
www.chch.ox.ac.uk   (81 words)

  
 Michael Dummett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
In 1944 he was received into the Roman Catholic Church, and remains a practising Catholic.
He studied at Christ Church College, Oxford, and was awarded a fellowship at All Souls College.
In 1979, he became Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford, a post he held until retiring in 1992.
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 Oxford Tourist Information, guide and advice: UK Hotel and Guest House Directory
hrist Church College, first founded in 1525 by Cardinal Wolsey, is perhaps the most famous College in Oxford University.
his dates from the foundation of the college when the bell rang once for each of the college's original students, in order to tell them to return to the college before the gates were locked.
Entry to the church is free but there is an admission charge of around £1.50 if you want to climb the tower.
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 Lewis Carroll's Oxford
Charles Dodgson, Lewis Carroll, was a teacher of mathematics at Christ Church College in Oxford.
The Dean of the college was Henry Liddell, father of Alice Liddell.
Alice and her sisters lived at the college and Oxford was their home.
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