Corpus Christi College, Oxford, founded in 1517 by Bishop Richard Foxe, is the 12th oldest college in the University of Oxford and one of its smallest, with around 250 undergraduates and 90 graduates.
Corpus Christi was established to promote Renaissance “New Learning” and has played important roles in the history of the King James Bible’s translation and the early Church of England. The college maintains consistently strong academic performance, frequently ranking near the top of Oxford’s informal Norrington Table. Notably, the college’s library—praised by Erasmus as a wonder—is still intact and contains about 60,000 volumes in several languages.
The college is famous for its Latin grace still read at formal dinners, its academic focus (Classics is especially popular), and its living mascot—a tortoise cared for by a student “Tortoise Keeper”; the annual Tortoise Fair, where college tortoises race.
 
Interesting facts...
The main quad features the extraordinary Pelican Sundial, erected in 1570, with 27 separate sundials ingeniously designed onto a single pillar. Some report that the pillar also displays a matrix allowing readers to tell time by moonlight