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Worcester College, Oxford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (716 words) |
 | Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. |
| The college was founded in 1714 on the site of a former mediæval university building, Gloucester College, an ancient Benedictine house founded in 1283, which was suppressed under the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539. |
| The Chapel, redesigned in the Victorian period by William Burges, is highly unusual and decorative; being predominantly pink (the College colours are pink and fl), the pews are decorated with carved animals, including kangaroos and whales, and the walls are riotously colourful, and include frescoes of dodos and peacocks. |
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