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4 days ago · In more recent times the annexation of St. Mary Hall was followed by the erection of the Rhodes building in 1909–11 (B. Champneys, architect). ST. MARY HALL. St. Mary Hall was the most important of several academic halls which were acquired by Oriel during the Middle Ages.
4 days ago · This tenement was finally sold in 1452 and became part of St. Mary Hall. The end of the 13th century is also signalized by the advent of the monastic orders. About 1280 the Cistercians founded an abbey at Rewley as a studium for the scholars of that order.
4 days ago · Robert Whitehall, minister on his death in 1699, was vice principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, and the son of a freeholder in Stanton Harcourt, and left books worth £ 100 in his house there. There was a curate in 1706, but for most of the 18th century vicars resided and served the cure in person. John Gambold, vicar 1735-43, was a close friend ...
3 days ago · St Edmund was Edmund of Abingdon, born about 1175, and in the 1190s a teacher in Oxford, in a house on the site now occupied by St Edmund Hall. He studied in Paris and then returned to teach in Oxford with an international scholarly reputation. In 1222 he became treasurer to the Bishop of Salisbury, and by 1233 the Pope had appointed him ...
22 hours ago · Oxford ( / ˈɒksfərd /) [5] [6] is a city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town. Founded in the 8th century, it was granted city status in 1542. The city is located at the confluence of the rivers Thames (locally known as the Isis) and Cherwell.
2 days ago · This sculpture trail in Oxford’s city centre is made up of 31 bold and beautiful life-sized sculptures which will enable visitors to admire or ‘ox-plore’ the city in all its glory. There are a further 107 mini ox sculptures across the county. Each ox has been intricately designed by local and international artists.
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5 days ago · A new ‘Scottish border’, designed by Lear Associates, has been planted in the St John's gardens in honour of the President. The border was unveiled in May 2024 and has a wide variety of plants including roses, clematis, eryngiums and thistles, with Echinops ‘Blue Glow’ and Rosa 'Mary Queen of Scots' standing out.
