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St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded as a men's college in 1555, it has been ...
25/09/2023

St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded as a men's college in 1555, it has been coeducational since 1979. Its founder, Sir Thomas White, intended to provide a source of educated Roman Catholic clerics to support the Counter-Reformation under Queen Mary.
St John's is the wealthiest college in Oxford, with a financial endowment of £600 million as of 2020, largely due to nineteenth century suburban development of land in the city of Oxford of which it is the ground landlord.
The Front Quadrangle mainly consists of buildings built for the Cistercian St Bernard's College. Construction started in 1437, though when the site passed to the crown in 1540, due to the Dissolution of the Monasteries, much of the exterior was as it is now, but the Eastern range was incomplete. Christ Church took control of the site in 1546 and Thomas White acquired it in 1554. The college founder made major alterations to create the current college hall, and designated the Northern part of the Eastern range to be the lodging of the president, for which it is still used today. Front Quad was gravelled until the college's 400th anniversary when the current circular lawn and paving were laid out.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John%27s_College,_Oxford

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Exeter College.In the 18th century the college experienced declining popularity, as did all of Oxford's other colleges. ...
29/05/2023

Exeter College.
In the 18th century the college experienced declining popularity, as did all of Oxford's other colleges. University reforms in the 1850s helped to end this period of stagnation.
For over six centuries after its founding, women were not permitted to study at Exeter, but in 1979 it joined many other men's colleges in admitting its first female students. Today it admits men and women in roughly equal numbers. In 1993, Exeter College became the first of the former all-male colleges to elect a woman, Marilyn Butler, as its rector. When Butler's tenure expired in October 2004, the college elected another woman—Frances Cairncross, former senior editor of The Economist—as rector.
In 2014, the author J. K. Rowling was elected an honorary fellow of the college for the "extraordinary contribution she has made to the field of literature, and in particular to children’s reading and literacy"
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exeter_College,_Oxford

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St. John's CollegeThe North Quadrangle was not designed as a whole, but is the irregular product of a series of building...
25/04/2023

St. John's College
The North Quadrangle was not designed as a whole, but is the irregular product of a series of buildings constructed since the college's foundation.
In 1612 the college’s cook, Thomas Clarke, was given permission to build a college kitchen, with residential rooms above. The college bought this building, just north of the hall, from Clarke in 1620 and expanded it during 1642–1643 to produce the current Cook's Building
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All Souls CollegeSir Christopher Wren was a fellow from 1653, and in 1658 produced a sundial for the college. This was o...
24/04/2023

All Souls College
Sir Christopher Wren was a fellow from 1653, and in 1658 produced a sundial for the college. This was originally placed on the south wall of the Chapel, but in 1877 was moved to the quadrangle (above the central entrance to the Codrington Library).
In 2020, the College decided to cease referring to the Library as 'The Codrington Library' as part of a set of "steps to address the problematic nature of the Codrington legacy", which comes from wealth derived from slave plantations.
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Merton College ChapelThe south transept was built in the 14th century, the north transept in the early years of the 15th...
20/04/2023

Merton College Chapel
The south transept was built in the 14th century, the north transept in the early years of the 15th century. The great tower was complete by 1450. The chapel replaced the parish church of St. John and continued to serve as the parish church as well as the chapel until 1891. Because of this, it is generally referred to as Merton Church in older documents, and there is a north door into the street as well as doors into the college. This dual role also probably explains the enormous scale of the chapel, which in its original design was to have a nave and two aisles extending to the west.
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All of Christ Church’s gardens and Christ Church Meadow lie within the Grade 1 landscape included in the English Heritag...
19/04/2023

All of Christ Church’s gardens and Christ Church Meadow lie within the Grade 1 landscape included in the English Heritage Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England. The entry in this register reads
Overall the Christ Church designed landscape is of the highest significance, relating to its history, associations, as an early example of ornamental walks, quadrangles and garden spaces, and as the designed setting for an extensive group of Grade I buildings. For its early origin as ornamental college grounds, the survival of early fabric, its extent and association with internationally influential college members, the landscape is of international significance as recognised by its Grade I status on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
Source: https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/gardens-and-meadows

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Warden's Lodgings, Parks Rd, Oxford
18/04/2023

Warden's Lodgings, Parks Rd, Oxford

Christ Church Memorial GardensThe overall garden survives as designed in the 1920s. It retains the character of an Arts...
17/04/2023

Christ Church Memorial Gardens
The overall garden survives as designed in the 1920s. It retains the character of an Arts and Crafts style garden with its Yorkstone path, stone walls, and herbaceous borders.
The two small enclosed gardens have changed the most: the south garden known as the Rose Garden was designed as an iris garden and now has changing seasonal bedding, replanted twice a year. The north east garden is roughly trapezoidal, and bounded by walls on all sides. It is known as the ‘Circle Garden’, the name derived from a former round bed. It now has a lawn surrounded with mature shrubs including Wisteria, Magnolia, Photinia, Viburnum, Abelia and some lower herbaceous planting.
This garden, as the main visitor entrance to Christ Church and the Meadow, is heavily used and the lawns along the main path are protected with chains and a lavender border (Lavandula ‘Sawyers’). The long herbaceous border is planted to provide winter structure as well as restful, calm colours in the spring and summer.
Source: https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/memorial-gardens-0

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The All Souls College Library (formerly known as the Codrington Library) was founded through a 1710 bequest from Christo...
13/04/2023

The All Souls College Library (formerly known as the Codrington Library) was founded through a 1710 bequest from Christopher Codrington (1668–1710), a fellow of the college and a wealthy slave and sugar plantation owner. Codrington was an undergraduate at Oxford and later became colonial governor of the Leeward Islands. Christopher Codrington was born in Barbados, and amassed a fortune from his sugar plantation in the West Indies.
Under the terms of his will Codrington bequeathed books worth £6,000 to the college in addition to £10,000 in currency for the library to be rebuilt and endowed. The new library was completed in 1751 to the designs of Nicholas Hawksmoor and has been in continuous use since then. Today the library comprises some 185,000 items, about a third of which were published before 1800. The collections are particularly strong in law and history (especially military history).
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Souls_College,_Oxford

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In 1283, Elias de Hertford established Hart Hall, which would later be recognised as Hertford College. Hart Hall was not...
12/04/2023

In 1283, Elias de Hertford established Hart Hall, which would later be recognised as Hertford College. Hart Hall was not officially named Hart Hall but is said to have been given the nickname as a pun of the owner’s name. The first documented use of Hart Hall was in 1301.
This “Old Hall” still stands today forming a quadrangle with the Old Buildings such as; The Gatehouse (The Lodge), The Senior Common Room, an 18th-century cottage, Jacksons Chapel, and the library.
1740 was the year Hertford College gained full college status. Despite decades of furious opposition by the fellows of Exeter College Principal Newton secured a charter and status as a full Oxford University college. The principal originally tried to have a charter secured in 1723 but Exeter College fellows were particularly unhappy as they still owned part of the site. The Bishop of Exeter also used his political influence to stop the original charter.
Just a few years later Hertford College was no longer. Principal Newton relied on contributions by benefactor Thomas Strangways but he died in 1726. This meant the college from its conception started with insufficient funding. When the last Principle – Dr. Hodgson, died in 1805 no one took over the role.
Vice Principle Hewitt was blocked from becoming principle by the then Dean of Christ Church. The institution was dissolved and much of the remaining assets were given to Magdalen Hall.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodleian_Library


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Bodleian LibraryThe agreement with the Stationers' Company meant that the growth of stock was constant and there were al...
11/04/2023

Bodleian Library
The agreement with the Stationers' Company meant that the growth of stock was constant and there were also a number of large bequests and acquisitions for other reasons. Until the establishment of the British Museum in 1753, the Bodleian was effectively the national library of England. By then the Bodleian, Cambridge University Library and the Royal Library were the most extensive book collections in England and Wales.
The astronomer Thomas Hornsby observed the transit of Venus from the Tower of the Five Orders in 1769.
A large collection of medieval Italian manuscripts was bought from Matteo Luigi Canonici in 1817. In 1829, the library bought the collection of Rabbi David Oppenheim, adding to its Hebrew collection.
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