Christ Church is Oxford's most storied college, though it doesn't call itself a college at all. Its students and staff refer to it simply as "The House," from the Latin Aedes Christi (House of Christ), and they toast it at Formal Hall in academic gowns, as they have for centuries.

It was founded in 1525 by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Henry VIII's chief minister, who fell from favour before the building was finished. Henry completed it himself and renamed it Christ Church in 1546. It is the only Oxford college with a cathedral for a chapel.

Christopher Wren designed Tom Tower in 1682 to crown the entrance. Every night at five past nine, the bell inside chimes 101 times, still running on Oxford time, five minutes behind the rest of the country.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours trace Christ Church's remarkable literary afterlife: revealing how a maths tutor named Dodgson became Lewis Carroll here, how the Great Hall inspired Hogwarts, and how its Deanery garden door appears in Alice in Wonderland.