New College is a

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of the

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in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by Bishop

William of Wykeham William of Wykeham (; 1320 or 1324 – 27 September 1404) was Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England. He founded New College, Oxford, and New College School in 1379, and founded Winchester College in 1382. He was also the clerk of ...

in conjunction with

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as New College's feeder school, New College was one of the first colleges in the university to admit and tutor undergraduate students. The college is in the centre of Oxford, between Holywell Street and

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(known for Oxford's Bridge of Sighs). Its sister college is

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. The choir of New College has recorded over one hundred albums, and has won two

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History

Despite its name, New College is one of the oldest of the Oxford colleges; it was founded in 1379 by

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, as "Saint Mary College of Winchester in Oxenford", with both graduates and undergraduates. It became known as "New College" because there was already a college dedicated to St Mary in Oxford (

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Foundation

In 1379 William of Wykeham decided to found a college. He applied to

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for a royal charter permitting the foundation. In addition, he wrote a charter of his own, requiring his college to have a warden and seventy scholars. He purchased the necessary land in separate lots from the City of Oxford,

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and Queen's College. The area had been the City Ditch, a dangerous place by the city's wall; it had been used within living memory for burials during the

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. The college was founded the same year in conjunction with a feeder school,

(founded 1382, opened 1394). The two institutions have striking architectural similarities: both were the work of master mason

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. The first stone was laid on 5 March 1380. The college had occupied the buildings by 14 April 1386. William of Wykeham then drew up the statutes of the college. The coat of arms of the college is William of Wykeham's. It features two black chevrons, one said to have been added when he became a bishop and the other possibly representing his skill with architecture, since the chevron was a device used by masons. Winchester College uses the same arms. The college's

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, created by William of Wykeham, is "Manners Makyth Man". New College was established to have prayers said for William of Wykeham's soul. He instructed that there were to be ten chaplains, three clerks and a

choir A choir ( ), also known as a chorale or chorus (from Latin ''chorus'', meaning 'a dance in a circle') is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform or in other words ...

of 16 choristers on the foundation of the college. As well as being one of the first Oxford colleges to take undergraduates and to appoint tutors to teach them, New College was the first in Oxford to be deliberately designed around a main quadrangle. The college was about as large as all of the (six) existing Oxford colleges combined.

Civil wars

The Royalists used the cloisters and bell tower to store munitions early in the

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. In August 1651, the college was fortified by Parliamentarian forces. In 1685,

Monmouth's rebellion The Monmouth Rebellion in June 1685 was an attempt to depose James II, who in February had succeeded his brother Charles II as king of England, Scotland and Ireland. Dissident Protestants led by James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, eldest ill ...

involved Robert Sewster, a fellow of the college, who commanded a company of university volunteers, mostly from New College; they exercised on the bowling green.

Academic

Students at New College were until 1834 exempt from taking the university's examinations for the BA and (in earlier times) the MA degrees, and were also ineligible for honours, though they still had to take the college's own tests. The college used to have a reputation for "Golden scholars, silver bachelors, leaden masters and wooden doctors." More recently, like many of Oxford's colleges, New College admitted its first mixed-sex cohort in 1979, after six centuries as an institution for men only. In 2022, students at New College scored 75.5 on the

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. The choristers were originally accommodated within the walls of the college, under one schoolmaster. Since then the school has expanded; in 1903 the choristers moved to

New College School New College School (officially St Mary's College School) is a private preparatory school for boys aged 4 to 13 in Oxford. It was founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham to provide for the education of 16 choristers for the chapel of New Coll ...

in Savile Road.

College links

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is said to have established his own new colleges,

, and

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, either in admiration of William of Wykeham's twinned institutions of New College and Winchester College, or at least to have modified his plans to outdo them. New College and Winchester College have from the mid 15th century been formally linked to Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, a four-way relationship known as the ''Amicabilis Concordia''. King's and New College are sister colleges.

Buildings and gardens

At the time of its foundation, the college was a grand example of the "

perpendicular style Perpendicular Gothic (also Perpendicular, Rectilinear, or Third Pointed) architecture was the third and final style of English Gothic architecture developed in the Kingdom of England during the Late Middle Ages, typified by large windows, four-ce ...

". With the evolution of the college over the centuries, it has regularly added to its original quadrangle. The upper storey of the quad was added in the sixteenth century as attics which, in 1674, were replaced by a third storey proper as seen today. The oval turf at the centre of the quad is an eighteenth-century addition. Many of its buildings are listed as being of special architectural or historical importance. The initial building phase saw the construction of the Great Quad with the Gate Tower, the dining hall with the four-storeyed Muniment Tower for access, the chapel, the cloisters (consecrated as a burial site in 1400) with the four-storeyed bell tower (1400), along with the Warden's Barn in New College Lane (1402) and the Long Room (behind the SE corner of the Great Quad), purpose-built as a

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. The three-sided Garden Quadrangle, open at one end and begun by the addition of The Chequer to the east of the Great Quad in 1449, was completed in two stages between 1682 and 1707. Further college expansion led to the formation of Holywell Quad in the 19th century. A range known as 'New Buildings' was built along Holywell Street between 1872 and 1896, partly by

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in High Victorian style (1872), and partly, including the Robinson Tower over the entrance gates, by

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late Victorian Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century. ''Victorian'' refers to the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), called the Victorian era, during which period the styles known as Victorian we ...

style (1885, 1896). New College is building a new development on its Savile Road site, next to New College School. The Gradel Quadrangles were designed by David Kohn Architects and received planning permission in June 2018. They will provide an additional 99 student rooms, additional dining and kitchen space, a flexible learning hub and a performance venue. The tower of Gradel Quadrangles features several carved animal figures, symbolizing endangered species. Additional animal carvings adorn the parapets, reflecting a shift in architectural symbolism from colonial exploration to contemporary environmental concerns. Upper diamond-shaped windows allude to

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, a seminal project of the Soviet avant garde. In 2022,

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was proceeding with construction. File:New College garden front Oxford England.jpg, Photo-chrome of Garden Quad File:New College Oxford 20040124.jpg, Holywell Street: Scott Buildings and Robinson Tower File:Newcollege wall-hall-chapel.jpg, The Chapel and old city wall from Holywell Quad File:New College, Oxford (Pic 1).jpg, Front Quad File:New College's Gradel Quads, Mansfield Road, nearing completion March 2024.jpg, Gradel Quadrangles, Mansfield Road, nearing completion, March 2024

Hall

The hall is the dining room of the college and its dimensions are eighty feet by forty feet (24 m × 12 m). In his charter, Wykeham forbade wrestling, dancing and all noisy games in the hall due to the close proximity of the college chapel and the lodgings below the hall; he further prescribed the use of Latin in conversation. The

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panelling was added while

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was bursar. The floor was paved with marble in 1722. By the end of the 18th century, the open oak roof had been replaced by a ceiling. When the Junior Common Room offered £1000 to restore the hall roof, work began in 1865 under the architect

to create the current roof. The plain windows were replaced with

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, and the portraits were relocated. The hall underwent a major restoration project in 2015. File:New College, Oxford (3915166725).jpg, Hall

Chapel and cloisters

The chapel was based on the plan of Merton Chapel. The transepts and tower that made Merton Chapel T-shaped were omitted, and a screen separated the main chapel from the

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. The medieval interior was modified after the

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, with the removal of secondary altars, the rood loft, and the reredos' statues, the reredos being covered in plaster. Much of the medieval stained glass in the ante-chapel was restored in a 20-year project which was commended in the 2007 Oxford Preservation Trust Environmental Awards. The chapel contains a statue of

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by Sir Jacob Epstein and a painting by

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. Some of the stained glass windows, including the Great West Window, were designed by the 18th-century portraitist

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. File:New College Chapel Reredos.jpg, Chapel

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File:New-college-chapel.jpg, The Chapel, looking towards the altar File:El Greco - St James the Greater OU NEW NCO 179799-001.jpg, Painting of

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, The choir stalls contain a "splendid set" of 62 14th-century

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s. The niches of the

, which had been plastered over, were uncovered in the 1780s, and were fitted with statues by

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in the late 19th century. The chapel preserves the Founder's

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, a bishop's staff decorated with enamel and silver gilt; it resembles a crosier at

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. The cloisters, containing a large holm oak tree, sit by the western wall of the Chapel, were featured in ''

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'', in the scene in which Draco Malfoy is turned into a white ferret. Michael Darbie recast the original five bells of the bell tower into eight in 1655, creating the first set of eight to be cast simultaneously. In 1712, two more bells were added, supposedly to outmatch Magdalen College's new ring of eight bells created in that year. The bells are rung by the

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Gardens and city wall

The Middle Gateway opens to the Garden Quadrangle. The gardens include a mound that was first arranged in 1594 (with steps added in 1649, but now smooth with one set of stairs). In a 1761 edition of ''Pocket Companion for Oxford'' the mound is described: : "In the middle of the Garden is a beautiful Mount with an easy ascent to the top of it, and the Walks around it, as well as the Summit of it, guarded with Yew Hedges. The Area before the Mount being divided into four Quarters, .the King's Arms, .opposite to it the Founder's; in the third a Sun Dial; and the Fourth, a Garden-Knot, all planted in Box, and neatly cut." When

acquired the land on which to build the college, he agreed to maintain the city wall. The

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that runs alongside the wall is mentioned in

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's listing of the garden. File:Newcollege gate to gardens.jpg, The Gate in Garden Quad File:Oxford - New College.jpg, Old city wall in the College gardens File:New College, Oxford mound.jpg, The Garden Mound

Sports ground

The New College sports ground south of the

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was established in the 1880s. The Weston buildings, which accommodate postgraduate students, were built next to the ground in 1999.

Treasures

The college treasures include paintings and a substantial silver collection. The library contains a copy of the first printed edition of Aristotle. A

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statue stands by the City Wall.

Music

Choir

In 1379, William of Wykeham provided for a choral foundation of clerks and boy choristers. The tradition continues today with choral services during term. The choir often performs

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and

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, including

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's works. As well as appearing repeatedly at the

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, the choir has made numerous concert tours. The choir has recorded over one hundred albums. In 1997, the choir won a

in the best-selling disc category for their album ''Agnus Dei'', and in 2008, they won a Gramophone Award in the early music category for their recording of

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's ''Missa Benedicta''. On 29 June 2015, at the invitation of the Holy See and the

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, the choir sang at the Papal

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mass for the

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Organ

The original organ was given by William Porte (1420–1423). An organ was removed in 1547 under

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, and likewise in 1572. A

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organ installed in 1874 contained parts from organs by Samuel Green in 1776,

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, and Dallam in 1663. The present instrument was constructed by Grant, Degens and Bradbeer in 1969. In 2014 the organ was restored, with the key actions and other mechanisms being completely renewed by

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. File:New College Chapel Interior I.jpg, The organ, between the chapel and the ante-chapel

Student life

Outreach

New College has launched Step-Up, a sustained contact outreach initiative which seeks to inspire students from partner schools in England and Wales to apply to Oxford and supports them to make a competitive application. The college founded the Oxford for Wales consortium, Oxford Cymru, along with Jesus College and St Catherine's College, offering support to students from state schools in Wales.

Rowing

A New College

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is recorded from 1840; the

New College Boat Club New College Boat Club (NCBC) is the rowing club for members of New College, Oxford. The club's existence can be dated to 1840 when it first raced on The Isis in Oxford. The club shares a boathouse on The Isis (part of the Thames) with Balliol ...

was "Head of the River" in

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in 1887 and several years from 1896. The club headed the

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competition in 1882, 1896, and 1900 to 1904. The club represented

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at the Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1912, and earned a

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People associated with New College

Science *

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, American computational biologist, medical geneticist, and evolutionary geneticist Politics *

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, American diplomat, policy advisor, and public official *

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, the UK's first female

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Organisation and administration

The head of the college is the warden, who is responsible for academic leadership, chairs the governing body, and represents the college. Policy is defined and actioned by the warden together with the fellows of the college, who are scholars. New College is one of the constituent self-governing colleges of the

, which has a federal organisation. The warden is supported by specialist officers including tutors, bursar, librarian, and chaplain.'New College', in ''A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford'' (1954)
pp. 144-162
online at british-history.ac.uk, accessed 26 August 2008. The students are divided into a Middle Common Room consisting of the college's graduates, and a Junior Common Room for the undergraduates; these are run by their own committees.

Notes

References

Sources

* Buxton, John, and Penry Williams (1979). ''New College, Oxford, 1379–1979''. Oxford: Warden and Fellows of New College. . * Halford Smith, Alic (1952). ''New College, Oxford, and its Buildings''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. * Jenkinson, Matthew (2013). ''

, Oxford: A History''. Oxford: Shire. . * *

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(2010). ''New College''. London: Third Millennium. . *

External links

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