St Peter's College, Oxford
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St Peter's College is a relatively new college of the University of Oxford, Oxford, England. It occupies the site of two of the University's oldest Inns, or medieval hostels. Bishop Trellick's, later New Inn Hall, and Rose Hall, both of which were founded in the thirteenth century. But its history really began in 1929 when St Peter's Hall was founded by Francis James Chavasse, Bishop of Liverpool, who was concerned at the rising cost of education in the older universities in Britain, and projected St. Peter's as a College where promising students, who might otherwise be deterred by the costs of College life elsewhere, could obtain an Oxford education. The commitment to make Oxford accessible to any student of ability, irrespective of means, remains a feature of St Peter's today.
In 1961 the University approved a statute giving St Peter's Hall full collegiate status. With the granting of its Royal Charter in the same year, it took the name St Peter's College.
Buildings
St Peter's has an interesting and varied set of buildings, many of them much older than the College itself. The College has, in effect, adapted existing buildings to provide the collective facilities needed for College life, and built new ones to provide for student accommodation. Linton House, a handsome Georgian rectory, dating from 1797, is the entrance to the College, and houses the Porters' Lodge and College library. Canal House, the Master's Lodge, dates from the early nineteenth century. The College Dining Hall, known as Hannington Hall after the Victorian missionary, Bishop James Hannington, dates from 1832 and is the only surviving part of New Inn Hall. The College chapel was originally the Church of St Peter-le-Bailey, built in 1874, and the third church of that name on this site. The buildings of the former Oxford Girls' School, which adjoin the original site of the College, have been acquired more recently and provide living accommodation for students, seminar rooms, a Middle Common Room (for postgraduates) and a Music Room. Most recently, St Peter's has built two new student blocks a few minutes walk from the College, one by the site of the remains of Oxford's Norman castle, and the old mill stream, the other behind St Aldates.
The mascot of the college is the squirrel. As the Junior Common Room advertises: "We've got squirrels in our quad." And there really are squirrels.
| Meeting rooms | ||
|---|---|---|
| Room name | Capacity | Layout |
| Miles room | 40 | theatre style |
| Davis room | 12 | boardroom style |
| Theberge room | 25 | boardroom style |
| Music room | 40 | theatre style |
| Latner room | 45 | theatre style |
| Dorfman Centre | 60/40 | theatre/boardroom style |
| Junior Common Room | 85 | theatre style |
| Chapel | 150 | |
Succession of Masters
- The Reverend Christopher Maude Chavasse, M.C. (1929)
- Julian Thornton-Duesbery
- Robert Wilmot Howard
- Julian Thornton-Duesbery
- Sir Alec Cairncross
- Gerald Aylmer
- John Barron (-2003)
- The Reverend Professor Bernard Silverman (from 2003)
Notable alumni
- Edward Akufo-Addo, former President of Ghana
- Carl Albert, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
- The Reverend Wilbert Vere Awdry, writer of Thomas the Tank Engine
- Simon Beaufoy, writer of the screenplay for the film The Full Monty
- Sir Paul Condon, former Metropolitan Police Commissioner
- David Davies, Chief Executive of the Football Association
- Jack Dormond, later Baron Dormand of Easington, Labour MP for Easington, 1970–87
- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Chef and owner of River Cottage
- Matt Frei, BBC Washington correspondent
- Sir Rex Hunt, Governor of the Falkland Islands
- Ken Loach, film director
- Geordie Greig, editor of Tatler
- The Most Reverend Sir Paul Reeves GCMG GCVO QSO, former Archbishop of New Zealand and Governor-General of New Zealand
- The Reverend Professor Paul S. Fiddes, D.D., Principal, Regent's Park College, Oxford.
- See also .
External links
- [St Peter's College] – official website
- [St Peter's College Junior Common Room]
- [St Peter's College Middle Common Room]
- [St Peter's College Boatclub]
- [St Peter's College Football Club]
- [St Peter's College Chapel Website]
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