| Keble College | ||||||||||||
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| University of Oxford | ||||||||||||
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 Arms: Argent, a chevron engrailed gules, on a chief azure, three mullets pierced or | ||||||||||||
| Location | Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PG | |||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°45′32″N 1°15′28″W / 51.758899°N 1.257715°W | |||||||||||
| Latin name | Collegium Keblense | |||||||||||
| Motto | Plain living and high thinking[1] | |||||||||||
| Established | 1870 | |||||||||||
| Named for | John Keble | |||||||||||
| Architect | William Butterfield | |||||||||||
| Sister college | Selwyn College, Cambridge | |||||||||||
| Warden | Sir Michael Jacobs | |||||||||||
| Undergraduates | 460 | |||||||||||
| Postgraduates | 525 | |||||||||||
| Endowment | £47.0 million (2018)[2] | |||||||||||
| Website | www | |||||||||||
| Boat club | www | |||||||||||
| Map | ||||||||||||
  Location in Oxford city centre | ||||||||||||
Keble College (/ˈkiːbəl/)[3] is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford[4] in England. Its main buildings are on Parks Road, opposite the University Museum and the University Parks. The college is bordered to the north by Keble Road, to the south by Museum Road, and to the west by Blackhall Road.
Keble was established in 1870, having been built as a monument to John Keble, who had been a leading member of the Oxford Movement which sought to stress the Catholic nature of the Church of England. Consequently, the college's original teaching focus was primarily theological, although the college now offers a broad range of subjects, reflecting the diversity of degrees offered across the wider university. In the period after the Second World War, the trends were towards scientific courses (proximity to the university science area east of the University Museum influenced this). As originally constituted, it was for men only and the fellows were mostly bachelors resident in the college. Like many of Oxford's men's colleges, Keble admitted its first mixed-sex cohort in 1979.[5]
It remains distinctive for its once-controversial[6] neo-gothic red-brick buildings designed by William Butterfield. The buildings are also notable for breaking from Oxbridge tradition by arranging rooms along corridors rather than around staircases, in order that the scouts could supervise the comings and goings of visitors (Girton College, Cambridge, similarly breaks this tradition).
Keble is one of the larger colleges of the University of Oxford, with 460 undergraduates and 525 graduate students in 2021/22.[7] Keble's sister college at the University of Cambridge is Selwyn College.
- ^ Batson, Judy G. (2008). Her Oxford. Vanderbilt University Press. pp. 16–. ISBN 978-0-8265-1610-7. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
plain living and high thinking
- ^ "Keble College : Annual Report and Financial Statements : Year ended 31 July 2018" (PDF). ox.ac.uk. p. 22. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ Monteith, Peter (19 April 2024). "Latin Name and English Pronunciation of Keble College". WhatDoTheyKnow.
the answer is /ˈkiːbəl/.
- ^ "Keble College | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
- ^ Keble past and present. Archer, Ian W., Cameron, Averil. London: Third Millennium. 2008. ISBN 9781903942710. OCLC 232983257.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ In 1875, a writer in The Guardian dismissed Butterfield's Chapel as "fantastically picked out with zig-zag or checkerboard ornamentation", to which Butterfield responded stoutly in print, citing his East Anglian and Cotswold precedents: Paul Thompson, William Butterfield, 1971, noted in a review by J. Mordaunt Crook in The English Historical Review 1974.
- ^ "Keble College". Retrieved 6 November 2022.