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Looking up at the oriel window of the Old Library from the College Garden on a sunny morning, framed by trees

The Laudian Library seen from the west across Canterbury Quad on a snowy day

Chained book in the library laid on one of the desks, displaying chain

Looking up from Canterbury Quad to the statue of Charles I on the Laudian Library

A reader consults one of the items at a desk in the Old Library

A view down the Old Library showing the two globes in the central aisle, and the Elizabethan shelves

Stained glass lunette of Archbishop Laud impaling the arms of the see of Canterbury

View through an arch beneath the Laudian Library to the College Gardens, showing fan-vaulted ceiling and 17th century carved-oak doors to either side.

The room containing the Robert Graves archive, showing his papers in archival boxes

A sixteenth-century chest with elaborate locking mechanism and a cannon ball in front of the Eastern Oriel Window

Tobias & Sarah by Eric Gill is a half-length depiction of a couple in an embrace in stone

Looking south down the Laudian Library towards the main entrance, showing its Victorian sheving and carved wooden angels on the ceiling joists.

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