Climbing Great Buildings

BBC Four HD

7:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Thursday 27 February

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Jonathan Foyle climbs the spires of New College, Oxford, a building constructed in 1379 that set the blueprint for universities all over the world. He investigates how the Black Death led to an architectural innovation and reveals how the quadrangle originated here. He also discovers carvings of English folk tales in the chapel and learns how a glazing technique helped create the medieval stained glass