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Whitework altar cloth for Balliol College Chapel

The college chapel has been without an altar cloth for sometime. No one seems to know what happened to the previous cloth but some think it may have been swept up with a builder’s dust sheets after work was carried out in the corner of the chapel near the altar. As the altar is of […]

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Farewell to the library chairs

 An Oxford college library is a wonderful place to work in but has lots of potential for distracting staff away from library housekeeping. Not only are the books an ever present source of temptation but the buildings and fittings themselves constantly vie to catch your attention – from the acanthus leaves carved into the top […]

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