Green Templeton College, Oxford
Green Templeton College (GTC) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is the university's newest college having come into existence on 1 October 2008 from the merger of Green College and Templeton College. The college is located on the previous Green College site on Woodstock Road in North Oxford and is centred around the architecturally splendid Radcliffe Observatory, an 18th-century building, modelled on the ancient Tower of the Winds at Athens. The college has formal ties with Green College, University of British Columbia, which similarly owes its inception to the generosity of Cecil H. Green.
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