COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Christ Church
Alternate Title:
Christ Church [Cathedral and College]
Image View:
The entry to College Hall, grand entry stair, off the cloister
Creator:
Christopher Wren (British architect, 1632-1723); Henry VIII, King of England (British patron, 1491-1547)
Location:
site: University of Oxford (Oxford, England, United Kingdom)
Location Note:
St Aldates street
Date:
founded 1546 (creation)
Cultural Context:
British
Style Period:
Perpendicular Style; Renaissance
Work Type 1:
cathedral
Work Type 2:
college
Classification:
architecture
Material:
stone
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Subjects:
architectural exteriors; rulers and leaders; Education; educational, leisure; Christ Church Hall
Description:
Christ Church (Latin: Ædes Christi, the temple or house of Christ, and thus sometimes known as The House), is one of the largest constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. As well as being a college, Christ Church is also the cathedral church of the diocese of Oxford, namely Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. Originally Cardinal College, founded 1525 by Thomas Cardinal Wolsey. Refounded in 1532 as King Henry VIII's College by Henry VIII, to whom Wolsey's property had escheated. Then in 1546 the King, who had broken from the Church of Rome and acquired great wealth through the dissolution of the monasteries in England, refounded the college as Christ Church as part of the re-organisation of the Church of England and made it the cathedral of the recently created diocese of Oxford. Buildings include Christ Church Library; Peckwater Quadrangle; The Great Quadrangle or Tom Quad including Tom Tower; Blue Boar Quadrangle; Canterbury Quadrangle; Christ Church Hall; The Meadow Building; Christ Church C
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Three
Identifier:
1A2-E-O-CC-B2
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Christ Church
