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== Campus == [[File:The pocket guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama canal (1914) (14780239964).jpg|thumb|right|320px|Codrington College]] In 1713, Colonel [[Christian Lilly]] designed the original Codrington College building, on the model [[University of Oxford]] college, with four long sides of a building enclosing a quadrangle.<ref name="AZ Barbadian Heritage">{{cite book |last1=Fraser |first1=Henry |last2=Carrington |first2=Sean |last3=Forde |first3=Addinton |last4=Gilmore |first4=John |title=A-Z of Barbadian Heritage |date=1990 |publisher=Heinemann Publishers (Caribbean) |location=Kingston, Jamaica |isbn=976-605-099-6 |pages=42β43}}</ref> However, due to financial constraints, only the southern portion of the plan was built, with the construction period lasting from 1714 to 1743. The main building is constructed of coral stone.<ref name="AZ Barbadian Heritage" /> The design includes a central [[portico]] with a [[pediment]] and three high arches sitting between a chapel and dining hall with a bust of [[Christopher Codrington]]. The chapel has an altar configured with a vaulted ceiling and panelled with [[ebony]], [[lignum vitae]], and [[cordia]] wood.<ref name="BarbadosTourism" /> The campus also includes the Principal's Lodge.<ref name="AZ Barbadian Heritage" /> Originally, the Consett plantation [[great house]], it was a large building but simply designed in three chambers. The impressive porch is carved coral stone and original, carved [[Jacobean architecture|Jacobean]] [[baluster|balustrades]] have survived through a building fire. The building is now used as a library and for study space.<ref name="BarbadosTourism">{{cite web |title=Codrington College |url=https://www.visitbarbados.org/codrington-college |website=Barbados |publisher=Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. |access-date=2 March 2019}}</ref> The campus is entered via road lined with specimen trees of varyious species, including giant silk cotton, whitewood or white cedars, mahogany and others.<ref name="AZ Barbadian Heritage" /> An ornamental lake is fed by a natural spring.
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