Christ Church Cathedral.

"Amid that congeries of buildings which render Oxford so delightful a field of research to the student of ecclesiastical architecture, whether in its mediaeval, Renaissance, or modern aspect, there is one that is too frequently overlooked, or made the subject of much unfair criticism, chiefly from the fact of its elevation, in theory, to a rank to which its architectural character does not entitle it. In the first place, Oxford Cathedral was never a church of the first rank, but a twelfth-century priory church turned five hundred years later into a cathedral. In the second, what once existed is now no longer seen in perfection, for the west front and nearly half the nave were destroyed by Wolsey when he built the great quadrangle of his Cardinal now Christ Church College." Extract from "The Cathedrals of England and Wales" (Open Library)

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