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All Souls College. Oxford, England, Europe. Oxford. One of Oxford’s wealthiest and most tranquil colleges, All Souls was founded as a centre of prayer and learning in 1438. Much of its facade dates from that era, while the smaller Front Quad has remained largely unchanged for five centuries. The eye-catching mock-Gothic towers on the North ...
All Souls College was planned, built, and endowed in the 1430s by Henry Chichele, long-serving Archbishop of Canterbury. It received its foundation charter in 1438 from King Henry VI, co-opted by the Archbishop as the College's co-founder. Chichele was in his seventies at the time, and this, his third Oxford benefaction, situated right at the ...
Law at All Souls has a long and distinguished history. The College’s Founder, Archbishop Chichele, intended some of the College's fellowships to support those studying canon and civil law. In 1753, William Blackstone gave the first Oxford lectures on the common law while a Fellow of the College, and in 1758 he became the first Vinerian Professor of the Common Law.
All Souls College. All Souls College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. It was founded by Henry VI and it has no undergraduate members. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows or members of the college’s governing body. Sir Christopher Wren was a fellow from 1653, and in 1658 produced a sundial ...
The College's Warden originally lived in rooms to the left of the tower. This aerial-view drawing, known as the Typus Collegii, dates from around 1600. It is the oldest surviving representation of the original medieval and Tudor All Souls. It shows the front quadrangle, with the Hall projecting from its north-eastern corner at right angles to ...
The College betting books, 1815-1919, were privately printed in two volumes by C.W.C. Oman, 1912-38, and a volume of All Souls memorial addresses was privately printed in 1989. An official multi-volume history of the College is in preparation.)
All Souls is one of the wealthiest colleges in Oxford, with a financial endowment of £420.2 million (2018). [5] However, since the college's principal source of revenue is its endowment and it does not earn income from tuition fees, it only ranked 19th (in 2007) among Oxford colleges in total income. [23]
