Canterbury College, Oxford

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Canterbury College
Christ Church Priory Canterbury
WardenLast warden: William Sandwych
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Canterbury College, Oxford is located in Oxford city centre
Canterbury College, Oxford

Canterbury College (1311–1540), was a

Christ Church Priory, Canterbury. Shortly after the dissolution of the monasteries, the college's hall, chapel and other buildings were surrendered on 10 April 1540 and acquired by Christ Church.[1]

Background

The Priory first sent 4 monks to study in Oxford in 1311, in a hall it had bought there near the church of

secular clerks" – i.e. ordained clergy who were not monks), under a warden, who would be a monk chosen by the Priory's prior and admitted by the archbishop. Its endowment was granted in 1363, and included the church of Pagham, Sussex, along with (initially) eight Oxford houses' rents and a portion of the rents from Woodford, Northamptonshire and Worminghall
, Buckinghamshire, where the Priory had manors. Other endowments came in 1373, 1380, and 1392, eventually coming to about £86 a year, although these all gradually disappeared.

The licence to acquire land for building was only given in 1364–1365. Islip pulled out the monks and appointed as warden a secular clerk named,

Gloucester College
's 'prior studentium'. Lay students were occasionally admitted to the college to make up numbers and provide some income. In 1426 the 'prior studentium' complained that Canterbury College's students were breaking Benedictine rules on eating meat.

Shortly after the

Henry VIII, the college's hall, chapel and other buildings were surrendered on 10 April 1540 and acquired by Christ Church.[citation needed
]

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References

  1. ^ Houses of Benedictine monks: Canterbury College, Oxford. Vol. 2. 1907. p. 68. Retrieved 31 October 2007. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ^ Eleanor Chance, Christina Colvin, Janet Cooper, C J Day, T G Hassall, Mary Jessup and Nesta Selwyn, 'Medieval Oxford', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 4, the City of Oxford, ed. Alan Crossley and C R Elrington (London, 1979), pp. 3-73. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol4/pp3-73 [accessed 21 August 2018].
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  4. ^ Knowles, David. The Religious Orders in England, Volume II. Cambridge University Press, 1955, p. 21.
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