25/07/2025
Today and on behalf of Falcon Structural Repairs, I was at Christ College, which is one of the 36 colleges located at Oxford.
Christ College was originally founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII.
Having previously undertaken other structural stabilising works, on other college buildings, today Falcon Structural Repairs were tasked with undertaking a deep diamond cored hole to identify and confirm the make up and depth of the Christ College foundations.
From today's investigations we have been able to identify and confirm the original foundations are founded at a depth of 3.2m, 320cm, 3200mm or 10 ft. 6 inches, (in old money), below ground level. When you consider that these original foundations would have been excavated and laid/formed by hand only, in 1546.
Thank you to the Falcon operatives, Mark Zorba Potts, William West Walkin Whittaker & Stacey McGrath who were all involved in the core drilling investigations at Christ College, Oxford.
FYI it was Christ College Oxford that has been used as a backdrop in some of the Harry Potter films .......