The Canterbury Quadrangle is one of the quadrangles of Christ Church,

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. It stands on the site of the former Canterbury College. A Brief History of Christ Church p.8 On the west side is

Christ Church Library Christ Church Library is a Georgian building that forms the south side of Peckwater Quadrangle in Christ Church, Oxford, England. To the east is Canterbury Quadrangle. The library houses the college's modern lending library and early printed b ...

, whose north façade completes the four sides of

Peckwater Quadrangle The Peckwater Quadrangle (known as "Peck" to students) is one of the quadrangles of Christ Church, Oxford, England. It is a Grade I listed building. Christ Church Library is on the south side of the quad. To the southeast is Canterbury Quad ...

. On the east side is Canterbury Gate with access to

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and

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. The

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is accessed through staircase 4 in the south range, originally designed to house the college's most noble undergraduates. Designed by Philip Powell &

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in 1968, the exterior of the Picture Gallery cannot be seen from within Canterbury Quadrangle, as it is partially sunk into the Deanery garden behind. The original quadrangle was created 1632 to 1636 by a group of masons from London led by John Jackson and Robert White. Canterbury Quadrangle was redesigned by the architect

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(1746–1813), in a style similar to the neighbouring Peckwater Quadrangle, and was completed in 1783. The money needed to build the quadrangle was donated to the college by

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, Archbishop of Armagh. The quad is Grade I listed. As an undergraduate at Christ Church from 1828, future

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, William Gladstone lived in a "leisured set" in Canterbury Quadrangle.

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