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Magdalen College’s founder wanted to build something more fitting for a humanist prince than his alma mater New College. He gave Magdalen a deer park, river walks, later the oak paneling of the dining hall was taken from a grand monastery dissolved in the English Reformation.
The site was taken from the Medieval St John’s Hospital and Magdalen still excels in the art and science of medicine. Magdalen’s alumni include 9 Nobel Prize winners.
Tours
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When you walk through Oxford you walk through centuries and step in the footsteps of the great.
Oscar Wilde delighted at the beauty of the City but Jane Austen shuddered at its “grimy halls”.
We will explore the university’s iconic buildings including the Bodleian Library.
Seewhere the first antibiotic and covid vaccines were developed.
Glimpse the walk that Alice took when she fell down the rabbit hole and where Tolkein and C S Lewis wrote their seminal books.
Chaucer’s student roamed inside the great wall which encircled the city built by King Alfred in the ninth century.
Here Queen Elizabeth I was greeted with great pomp and ceremony and Sir Christpher Wren
designed his first public building.
We enter a medieval college, learn how they developed and see how they are lived in today.
Each college is full of mystery with strange stories and traditions and each one is a world in itself and behind the ancient windows great work is taking place.
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Magdalen College’s founder wanted to build something more fitting for a humanist prince than his alma mater New College. He gave Magdalen a deer park, river walks, later the oak paneling of the dining hall was taken from a grand monastery dissolved in the English Reformation.
The site was taken from the Medieval St John’s Hospital and Magdalen still excels in the art and science of medicine. Magdalen’s alumni include 9 Nobel Prize winners.
Magdalen College allows visitors into all of its Quadrangles, the antechapel, hall, cloister, gardens & Addison’s Walk.