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The Great Hall - built by Wolsey, and the venue<br />
for Festival dinners, talks and tastings,<br />
the largest Tudor College Hall in either Oxford<br />
or Cambridge.<br />
During the English Civil War, Oxford was the<br />
Royalist capital, with the King and court based<br />
at Christ Church (1642-1646). King Charles I<br />
addressed both houses of the Royalist Parliament<br />
in the Great Hall - which was the focus for all<br />
court pomp and ceremony. The Hall also<br />
provided the setting for the Hogwarts Hall in<br />
J K Rowling’s Harry Potter films.<br />
Christ Church today is one of the foremost<br />
Colleges in the University of Oxford - with<br />
undergraduate and postgraduate students<br />
from home and overseas and reading a great<br />
range and variety of academic subjects. It has<br />
a major contingent of research fellows and<br />
leading scholars. The Cathedral (and College<br />
Chapel) serves the diocese of Oxford, as well<br />
as the student body - and the world-famous<br />
Christ Church Cathedral Choir reflects a<br />
tradition established by Cardinal Wolsey, who<br />
appointed John Taverner as the first organist.<br />
CHRIST CHURCH<br />
CHRIST CHURCH HAS EDUCATED 13 PRIME MINISTERS<br />
Sir Alec Douglas-Home<br />
Anthony Eden<br />
Marquess of Salisbury<br />
Earl of Rosebery<br />
William Ewart Gladstone<br />
Earl of Derby<br />
Sir Robert Peel<br />
George Canning<br />
Earl of Liverpool<br />
Lord Grenville<br />
Earl of Shelburne<br />
Duke of Portland<br />
George Grenville<br />
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