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The oldest monument in the cathedral, the Shrine of St. Frideswide in the Latin Chapel. The arches along the top are decorated with faces peeping out from behind foliage and more faces decorate the base.
Built in 1289, the shrine once contained the holy relics of Frideswide and was visited by countless medieval pilgrims. It was destroyed in 1538 as part of the Reformation.
Fragments of the shrine were discovered in the college in the 1870s and more were uncovered in the cloister in 1985. The shrine was fully reconstructed as accurately as possible in 2002, an effort that earned an Oxford Preservation Trust award in 2005.
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