St Peter's College (Oxford)

St Peter's College (Oxford)
founding	St Peter's Hall: 1928 St Peter's College: 1961
Sponsorship	University of Oxford
place	Oxford
country	United Kingdom
master	Judith Buchanan
Students	578 (2019) Undergraduates : 259 Postgraduates : 196
Foundation assets	£ 49.5 million (2019)
University sports	Rowing club
Website	Homepage

The St. Peter's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford and is located in the New Inn Hall Street, Oxford , UK . It is located on the site of two medieval university halls that date back to the 14th century. The modern college was founded by Francis James Chavasse, former Bishop of Liverpool, opened as St. Peter Hall in 1929 and named St. Peter College in 1961. It was founded as a men's college and has been co-educational since 1979.

In 2019 the college had an estimated endowment of £ 49.6 million .

history

St. Peter's College from New Inn Hall Street

In St. Peter there are two medieval halls of the university: Trilleck's Inn, later New Inn Hall and Rose Hall. Trilleck's Inn was founded in the 14th century by Bishop John Trilleck and transferred to Balliol College in 1887 as New Inn Hall . Rose Hall was given to New College by William of Wykeham. The New College eventually sold the site to the Rector of St Peter-le-Bailey in 1859 and 1868 as the location for a new church that now forms the college chapel.

The history of the college in its present form began in 1923 when Francis James Chavasse, the former Bishop of Liverpool , returned to Oxford. Concerned about the rising cost of education in the UK's older universities, he planned St Peter's as a college where promising students who might otherwise be deterred by the cost of university life could receive an Oxford education. In 1928, St Peters Hall opened as a hostel for 13 students. In 1929 it was recognized by the university as a Permanent Private Hall .

In 1961 the university approved a statute that gave St Peter's Hall full college status. When it was granted its Royal Charter in the same year, it was named St. Peter's College.

The colors of the college are green and gold.

building

St. Peter's has a variety of buildings, many of which are much older than the college itself. The college has adapted the existing buildings and built new ones to provide college facilities and student accommodation.

Linton Quad

The Linton House

Linton House, a Georgian rectory from 1797, forms the entrance to the college and houses the porter's lodge and the university library.

The college chapel was originally the Church of St. Peter-le-Bailey, built in 1874. The chapel contains monuments to members of the Chavasse family, including the original grave cross of Captain Noel Chavasse, the Chavasse memorial window and a large bas-relief of Bishop Francis Chavasse at prayer.

The Linton Quad also includes the Matthews Block (which has a student-run bar) and the Latner Building.

Hannington Quad

The college dining room, named after Victorian missionary James Hannington , dates back to 1832 and is the only remaining part of the New Inn Hall. The inner courtyard ( English : Quad) was completed by the construction of a block of flats designed by Herbert Baker and Fielding Dodd behind the older buildings.

Chavasse Quad

Neo-Gothic college student accommodation

The "Central Girls School" in the south of the original college site was designed by Leonard Stokes and completed in 1901. It was converted into the college's Chavasse building between 1984 and 1986 and offers student living space, seminar rooms, a middle common room for postgraduate students and a music room. In 2018 the new Hubert Perrodo building with additional accommodation and conference rooms was completed.

Mulberry Quad

The Morris building was donated by William Morris in memory of his mother, Emily Morris.

Canal House

The Canal House, the Master's Lodge, dates back to the early 19th century.

Extensions

The college also has several external student apartment blocks just minutes from the main buildings. St. Thoma's Street and St. George's Gate house only undergraduate students, while Paradise Street houses postgraduate students.

students life

The student-run Junior Common Room organizes a variety of events throughout the academic year, from formal Burns Night celebrations to themed parties that last into the wee hours of the morning. The college is one of the few that has its own student-edited art magazine, Misc . The college also has a student-run college bar.

Sports

The college has sports teams that compete in the fields of rowing, cricket, soccer, foosball, and rugby. It shares a sports field with two cricket fields and pavilions, two rugby and soccer fields, a hockey field, tennis courts and a squash court with Exeter College and Hertford College .

Personalities

Masters

• Christopher Maude Chavasse (1929–1940), British athlete and Anglican bishop
• Julian Thornton-Duesbery (1940–1944 and 1955–1968)
• Robert Wilmot Howard (1945–1955)
• Alec Cairncross (1969–1978), British economist and civil servant
• Gerald Aylmer (1979–1991)
• John Barron (1991–2003), British Graecist, classical archaeologist, numismatist and epigraphist
• Bernard Silverman (2003-2009), British mathematician
• Mark Damazer (2010-2019)
• Judith Buchanan (since October 2019)

Well-known alumni

• Ken Loach (* 1936), British film director and screenwriter
• David Davies , former executive director of the Football Association
• Hugh Fearnley-Whitingstall (* 1965), British chef and television entertainer
• Mark Carney (born 1965), Governor of the Bank of England
• Hugh Dancy (* 1975), British film actor and model
• Nick Houghton , British General and Chief of the Defense Staff
• Carl Albert (1908–2000), former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

Web links

• Homepage (English)
• St Peter's College Middle Common Room (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Student Statistics - College Breakdown. University of Oxford , 2019, accessed June 22, 2020 (UK English). 
2. ↑ Annual Report & Financial Statements. (PDF) St Peter's College, July 31, 2019, accessed July 22, 2020 (UK English). 
3. ^ College History. (No longer available online.) St Peter's College, archived from the original on June 30, 2020 ; Retrieved July 22, 2020 (UK English). 
4. ↑ St Peter's College University of Oxford: Annual Report & Financial Statements: For the year ended 31 July 2019 (PDF)
5. ^ ^{A b c} A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford . British History Online. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
6. ↑ http://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/content/chavasse-family-papers
7. ^ Geoffrey Tyack: Oxford: An Architectural Guide . Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-19-817423-3 , p. 284.
8. ^ RC Whiting: Oxford: Studies in the History of a University Town Since 1800 . Manchester University Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0-7190-3057-4 , p. 74.
9. ^ 90 Years of St Peter's College. In: Issuu . Cross Keys - St Peter's College, Oxford.Retrieved August 5, 2020 (UK English). 
10. ^ Undergraduate Study .
11. ^ Matei Marin: The St. Peter's College bar is the best in Oxford . January 31, 2017.
12. ^ Sports - St. Peter's College. St Peter's College, accessed August 5, 2020 (UK English). 
13. ↑ Obituary . In: The Times . August 29, 2008. Retrieved March 13, 2010.
14. ^ Professor Judith Buchanan elected next Master of St Peter's College . In: St Peter's College, Oxford . June 21, 2019. Retrieved September 14, 2019.

Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 9.9 "  N , 1 ° 15 ′ 38.6"  W.