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| A Tuck's "Oilette" postcard of Christ Church Cathedral and Tom Tower. |
| Originally founded by Cardinal Wolsey in 1524 as Cardinal's College and refounded by Henry VIII in 1546, Christ Church is one of the largest colleges in the University of Oxford |
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| The famous bell tower was designed by Sir Christopher Wren, a former student at Christ Church, in 1682. The tower houses the bell, Great Tom, and like Big Ben in London, the tower tends to be called after the bell. |
| The Dean who supervised the construction of Tom Tower, John Fell, was an unpopular man who inspired the famous verse, 'I do not love thee Doctor Fell, Why I don't I cannot tell, But this I know and know full well, I do not love thee Doctor Fell.' |
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| Christ Church Cathedral is the College Chapel for the College as well as the cathedral church for the Diocese of Oxford. |
| The College's Latin name, Aedes Christi, means Temple or House of Christ, and thus the College is known as The House. |
| Christchurch in the South Island of New Zealand was named after the college in 1848. |
| The College has appeared in many literary works, including Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited" and Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". |
| Former students at Christ Church include thirteen British Prime Ministers (only two short of the totall number produced by the whole of Cambridge !). The most recent are Anthony Eden and Alec Douglas-Home. |
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| Christ Church Cathedral. |
| Christ Church from St Aldates. |