Christ Church College, Oxford, England

We happen to be visiting Oxford, England this month. The city was founded in the late 9th Century, and the University emerged in the late 12th and early 13th Centuries. The idea of the collegiate quadrangle was developed in Oxford, and its colleges have served as models for collegiate architecture up to the present time.
This photo is of Tom Tower at Christ Church College, designed by Christopher Wren in 1681. This tower reflects the spread of classicism after the Civil War, and is considered a creative solution to completing an older, Gothic style building.