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The name 'Jordan' was inspired partly by the area of Oxford known as Jericho, [4] through which the Oxford Canal passes; an area called 'Jericho' also features in Northern Lights as a mooring point for the Gyptians's boats. The location of Jordan College used for the film, The Golden Compass, was Christ Church, Oxford.
London's Australia House was selected as the location for Gringotts Wizarding Bank, [6] while Christ Church, Oxford, was the location for the Hogwarts trophy room. [36] London Zoo was used as the location for the scene in which Harry accidentally sets a snake on Dudley, [ 36 ] with King's Cross Station also being used as the book specifies. [ 94 ]
The Quaker Farms Historic District is a historic district in the town of Oxford, Connecticut, United States.It encompasses a small rural village on Quaker Farms Road (Connecticut Route 188) anchored by the Christ Church Episcopal, an 1812 wood-frame church with Federal and Gothic styling, located at 470 Quaker Farms Road.
Tom Tower is a bell tower in Oxford, England, named after its bell, Great Tom. It is over Tom Gate, on St Aldates, the main entrance of Christ Church, Oxford, which leads into Tom Quad. This square tower with an octagonal lantern and facetted ogee dome was designed by Christopher Wren and built 1681–82.
Christ Church, formally titled "The Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford of the Foundation of King Henry the Eighth", [1] is the only academic institution in the world which is also a cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of Oxford. The Visitor of Christ Church is the reigning British sovereign [16] (currently King Charles ...
The choir, looking towards the organ and entrance. The cathedral was originally the church of St Frideswide's Priory.The site was historically presumed to be the location of the nunnery founded by St Frideswide, the patron saint of Oxford, and the shrine is now in the Latin Chapel; originally containing relics translated at the rebuilding in 1180, it was the focus of pilgrimage from at least ...
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John Morris (1595-1648), Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford; John Piers (1522/3 – 1594), Archbishop of York; John Potter (1674–1747), Archbishop of Canterbury; Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–1882), churchman and progenitor of the Oxford Movement; John Charles Ryle (1816–1900), evangelical Anglican leader and first Bishop of Liverpool