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From Magdalen College along the High Street to Queen's, cut up Queen's Lane and you'll dog-leg your way north to New College (daily: April-Oct 11am-5pm; Nov-March 2-4pm; GBP2, free in winter; tel 01865/279555). Founded in 1379, the college has splendid Perpendicular Gothic architecture in its Front Quad , even if the addition of an extra storey in 1674 spoiled the overall effect. The Chapel has been mucked about, too, yet it can still lay claim to being the finest in Oxford, not so much for its design as its contents. The ante-chapel contains some superb fourteenth-century stained glass and the west window - of 1778 - holds an intriguing (if somewhat unsuccessful) Nativity scene based on a design by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Beneath it, shoved up against the wall, stands the wonderful Lazarus by Jacob Epstein - Khrushchev, after a visit to the college, claimed that the memory of this haunting sculpture kept him awake at night. Notable New College alumni include the Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell, Tony Benn and the author John Fowles. An archway on the east side of the Front Quad leads through to the grounds, a pleasant lawn skirted by the best-preserved part of the thirteenth-century city walls . You can leave the college either through the north entrance into Holywell Street, or back the way you came and into New College Lane. Both are close to the east end of Broad Street.
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