Trinity College, Oxford
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Location | Latin: Quod tacitum velis nemini dixeris (That which you wish to be secret, tell to nobody) | |||||||||||
Established | 1555 | |||||||||||
Named for | The Holy Trinity | |||||||||||
Sister college | Churchill College, Cambridge | |||||||||||
President | Dame Hilary Boulding | |||||||||||
Undergraduates | 308[4] (2011/2012) | |||||||||||
Postgraduates | 125 | |||||||||||
Website | www | |||||||||||
Boat club | Boat Club | |||||||||||
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Trinity College (full name: The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of Oxford, of the foundation of Sir Thomas Pope (Knight)
Despite its large physical size, the college is relatively small in terms of student numbers at approximately 400. It was founded as a men's college and has been coeducational since 1979.[8] As of 2022, the total funds of Trinity amounted to £212 million, including a financial endowment of £181 million.[9]
Trinity has produced three
History
Durham College
The site where Trinity College now stands was originally occupied by Durham College, built for
Trinity College
Trinity College was founded in 1555 by Sir
The college remained an all-male institution until 1979, when (in common with a number of other Oxford colleges) it admitted its first women undergraduates. It is now fully
Trinity was one of the locations used for filming of the original series
Dame Hilary Boulding, formerly principal of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, succeeded Sir Ivor Roberts as president in August 2017.[citation needed]
Trinity–Balliol rivalry
For many years, there has been a traditional and fierce rivalry shown between the students of Trinity and those of its immediate neighbour to the west, Balliol College.[14] It has manifested itself on the sports field and the river; in the form of songs (of greater or less offensiveness) sung over the dividing walls; and in the form of "raids" on the other college.
In college folklore, the rivalry goes back to the late 17th century, when Ralph Bathurst, president of Trinity, was supposedly observed throwing stones at Balliol's windows.[15] In fact, although the first antagonism was recorded in 1583, the rivalry in its modern form appears to date from the late 1890s, when the chant or song known as a "Gordouli" began to be sung from the Balliol side.[16] The traditional words run:
Gordouli
Face like a ham,
Bobby Johnson says so
And he should know.[17]
Although these words are now rarely heard, the singing of songs over the wall is still known as "a Gordouli". The traditional Gordouli is said to have been sung by Balliol and Trinity men in the trenches of Mesopotamia during the First World War.[18]
The rivalry was given an extra edge in the early 20th century by the contrast between the
In
One of the wittier raids from Balliol, in 1962 or 1963, involved the turfing of the whole of Trinity
Buildings
The main entrance to the college is on
Durham quadrangle
Trinity was built around a single quadrangle, now known as the Durham quadrangle, named after Durham College which previously occupied the site of Trinity.
Chapel
The chapel, though relatively modest in size compared to some of its Oxford counterparts, was the first college chapel to be designed entirely in the Baroque style.[citation needed] It was designed by Henry Aldrich, with advice from Christopher Wren, and was consecrated in 1694.[citation needed]
On the top of the west tower sit four female statues, which represent Astronomy, Geometry, Medicine and Theology.[citation needed]
Garden Quadrangle
The north side of the quad was designed by Christopher Wren and built in 1665–1668 as a freestanding block to the north of the Durham quad. The west side was added to the same plan in 1682.[25]
Front quadrangle
The front quadrangle between the Durham quadrangle and Broad Street was formed by the new buildings (1883–1885) and the president's lodgings (1885–1887), both designed by Thomas Graham Jackson. It also includes some older buildings on Broad Street: four old cottages and Kettell Hall, a stone house built by President Ralph Kettell in around 1620.[25]
Library quadrangle
The library quadrangle is located between Jackson's new buildings and the new library of 1925–1928, built as a memorial to members of the college who perished in World War I.[25] The building was designed by architect Mr. J. Osborne Smith, with the ornate barrel roof created by the leading architectural designer Leonard Shuffrey.[26]
The Cumberbatch buildings to the north and south were designed by Maguire and Murray and built in 1964–1966.
In 2018 the college gained planning permission for a new building, designed by ADAM Architecture, to the north of the library quadrangle and the university's Weston Library and replacing the northern Cumberbatch building.[29] The Levine Building was opened in 2022 and marked the beginning of the overarching transformation of Trinity College.[30]
Student life
The college offers accommodation to all undergraduate students. First and second years are housed on the college's main site, and third and fourth years in college buildings on the Woodstock Road.[31]
Chapel Choir
The Trinity College Chapel Choir consists of up to eight choral scholars and over thirty voluntary singers. The college has one of the largest chapel choirs in the university with the majority of members from within the college. The choir sing a weekly
The choir goes on annual tours, recent tours include Dublin in 2008, where they sang concerts and a Sung Eucharist in
Notable former students
In over four centuries of its history, Trinity has produced a number of notable students who have led careers in fields such as; academia, politics, science, religions and the arts.
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St John Henry Newman, theologian, poet and Cardinal of the Catholic Church
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Henry Moseley, physicist and discoverer of Moseley's law
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Sir Richard Burton, explorer and writer
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Robert Smallbones, British diplomat and humanitarian
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Sir Ronald Syme, Roman historian
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King of the Belgiansas of 2013
Gallery
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Back Lawns of Trinity looking towards Garden Quad; the white structure centre right is a temporary dining hall (2023).
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Front Quad looking towards Staircase VII
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Bust of Cardinal Newman outside Garden Quad
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'The Wilderness'
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Old dining hall at Trinity College (closed for refurbishment 2023)
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Alternative view inside the Chapel
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From the lawn looking towards Wadham College
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The Jackson Building (Staircase VI in Front Quadrangle)
References
- ^ Brooke-Little, John P. "The Arms of Oxford University and its Colleges". The Heraldry Society. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
- ^ Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.814 "Pope of Wilcote, Wroxton and Deddington, Oxfordshire"
- ^ Warton, Thomas (1780). The life of Sir Thomas Pope. Thomas Cadell. p. 316.
- ^ "Undergraduate numbers by college 2011–12". University of Oxford.
- ^ Hopkins 2005, p. 18
- ^ "Trinity College | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- ^ a b c Hopkins 2005, pp. 9–15
- ^ Oneltd. "Trinity College – Modern Trinity". www.trinity.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
- ^ "Trinity College : Annual Report and Financial Statements : Year ended 31 July 2022" (PDF). ox.ac.uk. p. 11. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ "British Prime Ministers educated at Oxford - University of Oxford".
- ^ "Houses of Benedictine monks: Durham College, Oxford". A History of the County of Oxford Volume 2 (1907), pp. 68-70. Accessed 27 March 2012.
- ^ Hopkins 2005, p. 17
- ^ "Annual Admissions Statistical Report May 2018" (PDF). www.ox.ac.uk.
- ^ Clare Hopkins and Bryan Ward-Perkins, "The Trinity/Balliol Feud", Trinity College Oxford Report (1989–90), pp. 45-66.
- ^ Hopkins and Ward-Perkins, "Trinity/Balliol Feud", p. 45.
- ^ For the Gordouli, see G. Norman Knight, "The Quest for Gordouli", Balliol College Record, 1969; reprinted in Trinity College Oxford Report, 1984–5.
- ^ "Gordoulis" was a popular brand of Egyptian cigarette. As "Gordouli", it became a nickname applied by Balliol men to a Trinity undergraduate, Arthur Galletti, who later joined the Indian Civil Service (I.C.S.) in the British Indian Province of Madras and cemented a reputation as an unconventional, maverick official whose words and actions constantly challenged the Raj and blighted his career for his extremely liberal support of the Indian people in contrast to the official government positions expected to be enforced by a member of the ruling class. Bobby Johnson, later Deputy Master and a Controller of the Royal Mint, was an undergraduate at New College. See Knight, "Quest for Gordouli".
- ^ Knight, "Quest for Gordouli".
- ^ Hopkins (2005), p.344
- ^ Hopkins and Ward-Perkins, "Trinity/Balliol Feud", pp. 54-60.
- Five Red Herrings. London: New English Library. p. 157. Wimsey's Biblical quotation is from John 4: 9.
- ^ Sayers, Dorothy L. (1969) [1933]. Murder Must Advertise. London: New English Library. p. 8.
- ^ Hopkins and Ward-Perkins, "Trinity/Balliol Feud", p. 51.
- ^ Segrove, Natalya (25 February 2010). "Trinity fish murdered". Cherwell.org.
- ^ a b c "Trinity College". british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
- ^ "Leonard Shuffrey". Architecture Magazine: 276–279. Spring 1927.
- ^ "The War Memorial Library". Trinity College, Oxford. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
- ISBN 0-900424-00-1.
- ^ "Go Ahead for the Levine Building". Trinity College, Oxford. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
- ^ "Prince Charles opens Trinity College's Levine Building". BBC News. 13 May 2022. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
- ^ "Undergraduate accommodation". trinity.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved on 2018-08-09.
- ^ "Chapel Choir". trinity.ox.ac.uk Retrieved on 2022-27-06.
- ^ "Trinity College Oxford, Report 2008 – 2009" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 November 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
Bibliography
- Hopkins, Clare (2005). Trinity: 450 years of an Oxford college community (2007 reprint ed.). Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-951896-8.)
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