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The mission of Saint Mary’s Hall is to prepare our students for success in college and fulfillment in life.
Founded in 1879, Saint Mary's Hall has plenty of rich history to explore. Learn more about the story of Saint Mary's Hall & what made us who we are today.
- The Library
- College Plate
- College Seals.
- College Portraits.
- Provosts of Oriel College
- Architectural History
(i) Before 1640. The dispute between Oriel andthe University over Bishop Thomasde Cobham's books is well known;Cobham had placed the books inthe building on the north side of St. Mary's, for theuse of the scholars of the University; Adam de Bromebought them from Cobham's executors (or ratherredeemed them from pawn) for Oriel, c. 1327; and theUniver...
(1) The so-called 'FoundersCup', a silver-gilt beaker andcover, decorated with theletter E and a chain of SS; French make, c. 146070 (fn. 110);perhaps made for Edward Prince of Wales in Paris,c. 1462; it is apparently the piece bought by the collegein 1493 for 4 18s. 1d.; (fn. 111)it is already called the'Founders Cup' in the inventory of 1596. (2)...
The earliest college seal (No.5268 in W. de G. Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of MSS. in the British Museum) probablydates from the time of the foundation: it is a pointedoval, 2 in. by 1 in., containing the Annunciation ofthe B.V.M., under a canopy of two trefoiled arches,with the B.V.M. on the right, the Archangel Gabrielon the left ...
The college portraits aredescribed in Mrs. R. L. Poole's Catalogue of OxfordPortraits, vol. ii (Oxford Hist. Soc., lxxxi, 1926),pp. 79108. The most notable are the portraits ofProvost Blencowe, dated 1601; Provost Tolson, dated1637; Provost Say, c. 166091; Bishop John Robinson,dated 1713; Provost Eveleigh, c. 17811814, byHoppner; Provost Copleston,...
Adam de Brome, appointed under charter, 21 Jan.1326, died 16 June 1332. William de Leverton, confirmed 27 June 1332,d. 21 Nov. 1348. William de Hawkesworth, confirmed 20 Dec. 1348,d. 8 April 1349. William de Daventre, elected 1349, d. June 1373. John de Colyntre, elected 8 July 1373, d. c. 1385. Provostship in dispute between Thomas Kirkton andJohn...
(i) Before the 17th-century rebuilding. Nothingis left of the medieval buildings (except for the SW.corner of the St. Mary HallQuad), but they can be partlyreconstructed from documentsand from Bereblock's view(1566). (fn. 121) The main part of the college site was acquiredgradually between 1329 and 1392 (spreading northwards from 'La Oriole' in the...
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Discover the history and significance of St. Mary's Hall, one of the oldest buildings on the University of Dayton campus. Built in 1870 by Brother Max Zehler, then the president of U.D., it was originally called "Zehler's Folly" due to doubts about its size and cost.
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The Cathedral is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, under the title of Immaculate Mother of God, Help of Christians. Architect William Wilkinson Wardell was commissioned by Archbishop Polding to design a new St Mary’s following the fire of 1865 which ruined the original Cathedral.
