New College (Oxford)

New College (St Mary's College of Winchester, Oxford)
motto	Manners Makyth Man
founding	1379
Sponsorship	Oxford University
place	Oxford , UK
Warden	Miles Young
Students	709 postgraduates : 287
Annual budget	£ 260.1 million (2018)
Website	www.new.ox.ac.uk

New College Chapel

The New College is one of the traditional colleges of the University of Oxford . Officially it is called the College of St Mary , but is called the New College to distinguish it from the older Oriel College , which is also dedicated to St Mary.

New college, garden

The institution is located between Holywell Street and New College Lane.

history

New College was founded in 1379 by William von Wykeham , Bishop of Winchester . The college motto is Manners Makyth Man (Behavior Makes Man).

The original building complex (Old Quad) from the 14th century was supplemented by new buildings in the 18th and 19th. The college has extensive gardens with an artificially created mound, a medieval dining room and a chapel as well as a cloister with a cemetery. Oxford's 12th century city walls are integrated into the college architecture.

The college is considered wealthy, with an estimated endowment capital of £ 143 million (about 150 million euros).

Musical life

The flagship of the college is the New College Choir under the direction of Edward Higginbottom , who organizes the daily services in the Gothic college chapel with music, regularly goes on concert tours and was involved in over seventy CD recordings. The college also includes the New College School, which is attended by the choirboys. The college also has its own opera company, the New Chamber Opera.

Well-known graduates

• HAL Fisher (1865–1940), liberal politician and historian
• Alfred William Abdey (1876–1952), musician
• Richard Crossman (1907–1974), author, psychological warfare specialist and politician
• Frank R. Palmer (1922–2019), linguist, university professor
• Christopher Hampton (* 1946), playwright, screenwriter, film director
• Hugh Grant (born 1960), actor
• Sir John Dermot Turing (born 1961), British lawyer, banker, author and historian, nephew of Alan Turing
• Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (* 1973), film director
• Nick Wilding , historian
• Vero Wynne-Edwards (1906–1997), zoologist, founder of the theory of group selection

Web links

• Official Homepage (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New College: Annual Report and Financial Statements: Year ended 31 July 2018 (PDF)

Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 15 ″  N , 1 ° 15 ′ 6 ″  W.