Continue … What to do in Oxford – Part II

Find around the Merton Street, Oxford Street to spend in front of the historic Corpus Christi College founded in 1517 by Richard Foxe, Bishop of Winchester. Just next door we have the Merton College, Oxford third oldest. It was founded by Walter de Merton, Chancellor of England and later Bishop of Rochester, in the year 1264.

Photography by ahisgett

Back to Merton College High Street we find the Magdalen College, founded in 1458 by William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester. Like almost all accounts with a chapel, cloister, library, etc. Whereupon one wonders how much money move these institutions to maintain such facilities. (más…)