The picture below shows the entry to the Christ Church College as we approached.

At 5:00pm we had champagne in the dining hall of the college. The dining hall is shown below.

This dining hall was the dining hall that was used for the layout of the great dining hall in the first two Harry Potter films. This dining hall was a little too small for the films' purposes, so a replica dining hall was built as a set, only it was made considerably larger to meet the films' needs. As can be seen by the picture above, there are many paintings on the wall of the dining hall. All of these paintings are portraits of significant people. One of the pictures had a peculiar property to it. The man in the portrait looks at you no matter where you were in the room. Below are two pictures of this portrait, one taken at a 45 degree angle to the right of the portrait, and one taken at a 45 degree angle to the left of the portrait.

One of the features of the Christ Church College that Harry Potter fans will recognize is the main quadrangle of the college. A portion of the quadrangle is shown below.

If this view isn't recognized, try this one...

Below is a view of the dining hall from the passageway seen in the above picture.

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While at Christ Church College, we visited a few of the gardens around the college. One of the gardens received its fame as the location of some of the story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through The Looking Glass. From 1855 to 1898, a mathematics tutor at the college named  Charles Dodgson, befriended the daughters of the Dean of Christ Church, Henry Liddell. You would more likely recognize him by his pen name, Lewis Carroll. One of the daughter's of the Dean was a girl named Alice. Many of the characters and stories in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass were inspired by and derived from people and objects at Christ Church College. The keyhole in this door located underneath the doorknob is the keyhole that Alice looked through.