Oxford and Her Colleges

A tradition of the University is a friendly rivalry between colleges. Often, two neighbouring colleges will be rivals, and each college will pride itself in its athletic victories over the other one. Examples include [ according to whom? From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

St Stephen's House is on Marston Street, m from this arrow. The hall does not have assets or endowments specific to it that shown in the order's accounts. The hall does not have assets or endowments specific to it that are shown in the society's accounts. See also note on Brasenose above. Blackfriars also uses their simpler shield, blazoned as sable, a pile inverted argent.

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Archived from the original on 1 August Archived from the original on 25 June Retrieved 13 June Pevsner was critical of the use of canting in the design. He wrote that the entrance was reached by staircases set diagonally, which is "typical of the building", and that Fryman had "succumbed to the canting fashion of today: A conference room, known as the Habakkuk Room after a former principal, was added in These were added in — and were also designed by England.

Pevsner noted the "four symmetrically grouped gables". In , a two-year project to rebuild the property above the shops on Ship Street was completed. The new JCR, about twice the size of the previous one, can be partitioned into smaller rooms or kept open for large meetings; there is also a kitchen, a student committee room and a glazed conservatory extending onto the adjoining terrace.

Above the JCR are three floors of new student rooms. The Fellows' Garden runs behind the west side of the second quadrangle, behind the SCR; it can be reached from there or from the third quadrangle. It is now overshadowed by adjoining buildings including the Old Members' Building. The college purchased 10 acres 0. Residential accommodation was first built at the sports ground in Thelwall House, rebuilt in , with additions between and Hugh Price House and Leoline Jenkins House.

A further development, known as Hazel Court after Alfred Hazel , principal — , was built in , bringing the total number of students who can be housed at the sports ground to Donations from Edwin Stevens , an Old Member of the college, enabled the construction in of student flats at a site in north Oxford on the Woodstock Road , named "Stevens Close" in his honour. This measures the social cost of construction or investment as a proportion of the economy's total output of goods and services.

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Retrieved 2 April The Encyclopaedia of Oxford. Archived from the original on 24 April Royal Institute of British Architects. Archived from the original on 21 May The Oxford group kept up close relations with their colleagues in London, and in , at Gresham , the decision was taken to create the body which, in , was to be formally incorporated as the Royal Society. Wilkins was the first president of the provisional body, and became the first secretary of the Royal Society itself.

These were the beginnings of organised scientific research in Britain. Maurice Bowra was Warden of the College from until , and was influential in determining the character of the College as open and meritocratic. He was known for his hospitality but also for his waspish wit, and anecdotes about his time as Warden remain in circulation amongst Wadham alumni. A statue of Bowra is in the College gardens, and the college's newest accommodation building bears his name. The college now consists of some 70 Fellows, about graduate students, and about undergraduates.

In , after more than three and a half centuries as a men-only institution, Wadham was among the first group of five all-male colleges at Oxford to admit women as full members, the others being Brasenose , Jesus College , Hertford and St Catherine's. Wadham College has a reputation as a supporter of gay rights partly because it plays host to "Queerfest", a celebration of the LGBTQ cause. A Wadham student tradition is that student social events are always concluded with the playing of Free Nelson Mandela. President Mandela visited Wadham College and dined there on 11 July He also highlighted that there is much more to South Africa than just the history of Apartheid, and that constant reference to it rather than South Africa's current issues is outdated and to the progressive act it was intended to be.

A vote to remove the constitutional requirement to play the song was narrowly defeated in a Wadham SU meeting. Lord Macdonald is also frequently in the media speaking on legal issues and, particularly, on issues relating to rights and security. Wadham is sometimes put forward as the last major English public building to be created according to the mediaeval tradition of the master mason.

Wadham's front quadrangle quad , which served as almost the entire college until the midth century, is also the first example of the "Jacobean Gothic" style that was adopted for many of the University's buildings. The main building was erected in a single building operation in — The style of the building is a fairly traditional Oxford Gothic , modified by classical decorative detail, most notably the 'frontispiece' framing statues of James I and the Founders immediately facing visitors as they enter the College.

Classical, too, is the over-powering emphasis on symmetry. The central quadrangle was originally gravelled throughout; the present lawn was laid down in The college was refaced in the s, and much of the front quad has undergone further restoration work. The portraits include those of the founders and of distinguished members of the college.

The large portrait in the gallery is of Lord Lovelace , who held Oxford for William of Orange during the Revolution of ; the inscription records his role in freeing England 'from popery and slavery'.

Although a ceremonial door opens directly into Front Quad, the chapel is usually reached through the door in staircase 3. The screen, similar to that in the hall, was carved by John Bolton. Originally Jacobean woodwork ran right round the chapel. The present stone reredos was inserted in the east end in The monumental East window depicting Jonah 's whale, top right, was made by a Dutchman, Bernard van Linge, in The elegant young man reclining on his monument is Sir John Portman, baronet, who died in as a nineteen-year-old undergraduate.

Another monument is in the form of a pile of books; it commemorates Thomas Harris, one of the fellows of the college appointed at the foundation. The Chapel organ dates from It is one of the few instruments by Henry Willis , the doyen of Victorian English organ builders, to survive without substantial modification of its tonal design.

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It is thought that the chapel was the first religious building in England to regain its stained glass and statuary following the reformation. Limited additions were made during the 18th and 19th centuries, including a converted warehouse originally used to store bibles. A series of expansions since have made use of a range of 17th- and 18th-century houses and several modern buildings to create a Back Quad between the Front Quad and Holywell Street.

It is thought to have been thus named in honour of Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh during the period of student radicalism in the s.

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The quad is used for games of croquet. The college grounds contain the Holywell Music Room. This is said to be the oldest, purpose built music room in Europe , and hence England 's first concert hall. The interior has been restored to a near-replica of the original and contains the only surviving Donaldson organ, built in by John Donaldson of Newcastle and installed in after being restored.

The Ferdowsi Library formerly the Ashraf Pahlavi Library specialises in Persian literature, art, history, and culture. It possesses about 3, volumes, almost manuscripts, about lithographs in Arabic and Persian, and about rare and early Armenian books, most of which were donated by Dr. Since then a special connection between Wadham and Iran has been established. The Wadham library building was initially funded by donations from the then Iranian ruling family, the Pahlavi dynasty.

The funds were secured by Fellow and tutor in economics, Eprime Eshag. It includes a cafeteria, bar, seminar rooms, squash court and the Moser Theatre as well as student rooms. The Merifield anmnexe is in Summertown , about 1. Wadham Gardens are relatively large when compared with those of other Oxford colleges, even without the land sold to build Rhodes House in the s.