51-644: Keble College ( / ˈ k iː b əl / ) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford 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
102-598: A collegiate system, all matriculated students are required to maintain an affiliation with a college or hall which is tasked with offering student support, welfare, and accommodation. Although the University of Oxford is already selective, an additional level of selectivity exists depending on different colleges and halls. Colleges and halls differ in their levels of selectivity, as evidenced by their varying offer rates. Except All Souls College which consists principally of research fellows, Nuffield College consistently possesses
153-414: A flexible studio theatre that was completed in 2002. The seating capacity of the space ranges from 128 to 250, depending on the setup chosen. The standard configuration is end-on, but alternatives include traverse and in-the-round. The theatre is named after Sir Tony O'Reilly , the billionaire Irish businessman and former international rugby union player, who contributed most of the funds. The theatre
204-457: A historic treble by winning the Men's first XI, second XI and Women's Cuppers in the same season. Keble College Sports Ground is located on Woodstock Road, and as well as hosting intercollegiate ("Cuppers") matches, also lays the stage for annual fixtures between current undergraduates and Old Members ("Ghosts"), particularly in football and cricket. Keble famously won a historic footballing Treble in
255-646: 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,
306-407: A porter's lodge controlling entry from the outside. The first modern merger of colleges was in 2008, with Green College and Templeton College merging to form Green Templeton College . The number of PPHs also reduced when Greyfriars closed in 2008 and when St Benet's Hall closed in 2022. Reuben College , established in 2019, is the first new Oxbridge college since 1990, when Kellogg College
357-661: A statute to allow private halls which were not run for profit to become permanent private halls and the two halls took their current names. Each college and permanent private hall has its own arms , although in some cases these were assumed rather than granted by the College of Arms . Under King Henry VIII Oxford colleges were granted exemption from having their arms granted by the College of Arms; and some, like Lady Margaret Hall , have chosen to take advantage of this exemption, whilst others, such as Oriel , despite having used
408-502: Is a descendant of the original (1221), and is sometimes described as heir to the oldest tradition of teaching in Oxford. As the university took shape, friction between the hundreds of students living where and how they pleased led to a decree that all undergraduates would have to reside in approved halls. What eventually put an end to the medieval halls was the emergence of colleges. Often generously endowed and with permanent teaching staff,
459-512: Is an officer known generically as the Head of House . Their specific title varies from college to college as indicated in the list below. While the Head of House will usually be an academic, it is not uncommon for a person to be appointed who has had a distinguished career outside academic circles. For a list of current Heads of Houses, see Heads of Houses . The dean of Christ Church is head of both
510-538: Is intended for "mature students" with a minimum age of 21. The newest college of the University, Reuben College , was established in 2019 as graduate-only, enrolling its first students in 2021 using the premises of the Radcliffe Science Library . Kellogg , Reuben and St Cross are the only Oxford colleges without a royal charter . They are officially societies of the university rather than independent colleges and are considered departments of
561-698: Is not war"). This story may have been borrowed from Arthur Wing Pinero 's identical quip said to have been made at the opening ceremony for the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Keble is mentioned in John Betjeman 's poem "Myfanwy at Oxford", as well as in the writings of John Ruskin and in Monty Python 's "Travel Agent" sketch. Horace Rumpole , the barrister in John Mortimer 's books,
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#1732783548899612-685: Is part of the Sloane Robinson Building development which was designed by Rick Mather Architects from 1996–2002. Theatreplan designed the theatre itself in collaboration with Rick Mather Architects, at a cost of £1.2 million. The project won the following awards: The Theatre is managed by the Martin Esslin Society, who are responsible for choosing the productions staged in the theatre each term. Talks are also given by well-known actors. More performances have occurred but are not listed. Performances are often reviewed in
663-463: Is some dispute over the exact order and precisely when each began teaching. The fourth oldest college is Exeter , founded in 1314, and the fifth is Oriel , founded in 1326. Women entered the university in 1879, with the opening of Lady Margaret Hall and Somerville College , becoming members of the University (and thus eligible to receive degrees) in 1920. Other women's colleges before integration were St Anne's , St Hilda's and St Hugh's . In 1974
714-409: Is the distinctive main brick complex, designed by Butterfield. The design remained incomplete due to shortage of funds. The Chapel and Hall were built later than the accommodation blocks to the east and west of the two original quadrangles and the warden's house at the southeast corner. The Chapel and Hall were both fully funded by William Gibbs and were also designed by Butterfield. A section west of
765-554: The Oxford Mail newspaper. In July 2004 Keble announced the purchase of the former Acland Hospital for £10.75 million. This 1.7-acre (6,900 m) site, situated a couple of minutes walk from the main college buildings, housed an estimated 100 graduate students. In October 2015 it was confirmed that Keble College had received funding from The H B Allen Charitable Trust to redevelop the Acland Site in order to provide double
816-578: The University Challenge Alumni Christmas Special , a seasonal programme on BBC2. They beat the University of Reading by 240 points to 0 in the final. The main site of Keble contains five quads: Liddon (the largest, named after Henry Parry Liddon ), Pusey (named after Edward Bouverie Pusey ), Hayward (named after Charles Hayward ), De Breyne (named after Andre de Breyne) and Newman (named after John Henry Newman ). The best-known portion of Keble's buildings
867-530: The Church of England (subject to safeguards for religious instruction and worship), which made it possible for Catholics and Non-conformists to open private halls. The first Catholic private halls were Clarke's Hall (now Campion Hall ), opened by the Jesuit Order in 1896 and Hunter Blair's Hall (later St Benet's Hall ) opened by the Benedictine Order in 1899. In 1918 the university passed
918-538: The Norrington Table , was published annually. As the table only took into account the examination results for the year of publication, college rankings could fluctuate considerably. Beginning in 2005, the University of Oxford started publishing a list of colleges classified by a "Norrington Score", effectively replicating the Norrington Table. The university claims to have published the results "in
969-413: 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. Keble's sister college at the University of Cambridge is Selwyn College . The best-known of Keble's Victorian founders was Edward Pusey , after whom
1020-533: The 2023/24 season when they won the Men's, Men's Reserve and Women's Football Cuppers. The first ever Football Cuppers Treble. Commemorative photographs of important matches adorn the walls of the Keble Cricket Pavilion inside the ground. Keble owns the original of William Holman Hunt 's painting The Light of the World , which is hung in the side chapel (accessed through the chapel). The picture
1071-463: The Pusey quad and Pusey room are named. The college itself is named after John Keble , one of Pusey's colleagues in the Oxford Movement , who died four years before the college's foundation in 1870. It was decided immediately after Keble's funeral that his memorial would be a new Oxford college bearing his name. The chosen architect was William Butterfield . Two years later, in 1868, the foundation stone
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#17327835488991122-529: The arms for many centuries, have recently elected to have the arms granted officially. The blazons below are taken from the Oxford University Calendar unless otherwise indicated. Shields are emblazoned as commonly drawn, and notable inconsistencies between blazons and emblazons (the shields as drawn) are indicated. Each college also has its own colours used on items such as scarves and rowing blades . The senior member of each college
1173-475: The chapel was built in a different style in the 1950s with funds from Antonin Besse . Later still further significant additions have been added, most notably the modern, brick Hayward and de Breyne extensions by Ahrends, Burton and Koralek (ABK). The extensions were made possible by a generous response from the businessmen Charles Hayward and André de Breyne and other fund-raising efforts. The ABK buildings included
1224-501: The college and the cathedral. The president of Kellogg College is also the director of the Department for Continuing Education. As of 2019 the accounts of the Oxford colleges included total assets of £6.6 billion. This figure does not reflect all the assets held by the colleges as their accounts do not include the cost or value of many of their main sites or heritage assets such as works of art or libraries. The total endowments of
1275-529: The college brick by brick. An apocryphal story claims that a French visitor, on first sight of the college exclaimed C'est magnifique mais ce n'est pas la gare? ("It is magnificent but is it not the railway station?"). This is a play on Field Marshal Pierre Bosquet 's memorable line, referring to the Charge of the Light Brigade , C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre ("It is magnificent, but it
1326-400: The college with the O'Reilly Theatre (a large multipurpose lecture theatre), a dedicated room for musical practice, several seminar rooms and a large open plan space which during term time is used as a café and social space for all members of the college. The original fellows' garden was lost in the programme of extension, as were a range of houses on Blackhall Road. The O'Reilly Theatre is
1377-601: The college's memorable, futuristic "goldfish bowl" bar, opened on 3 May 1977 and later refurbished and expanded. In 1995, work was completed on the ARCO building by the US-born architect Rick Mather . This was followed in 2002 by another similarly styled building also designed by Mather , the Sloane Robinson Building . Along with a number of additional student bedrooms the Sloane Robinson Building also provided
1428-473: The colleges were originally the preserve of graduate students. However, once they began accepting fee-paying undergraduates in the 14th century, the halls' days were numbered. Of the hundreds of Aularian houses (from the Latin for "hall") that sprang up, only St Edmund Hall (c. 1225) remains. The oldest colleges are University College , Balliol , and Merton , established between 1249 and 1264, although there
1479-416: The colleges were £5.1 billion as of 2019. Individual college endowments ranged from £1.2m (Green Templeton) to £577.6 million (Christ Church). In contrast to undergraduate programmes where the constituent college or hall handles both admissions and teaching, postgraduate students are admitted through a department, which is responsible for postgraduate education and supervision. As the university operates on
1530-442: The distinction of being the first college to issue stamps for the prepayment of a porter/messenger delivery service in 1871 only one year after it was founded, and it set the pace for other Oxford colleges to issue their own stamps. This service was successfully challenged by the post office in 1886. Keble also issued a college stamp in 1970 to mark its 100th anniversary. Keble, under snow, appears as Baidley College in an episode of
1581-417: The fields of interest of the fellows of the college. A typical college consists of a hall for dining, a chapel, a library, a college bar, senior , middle (postgraduate), and junior common rooms , rooms for 200–400 undergraduates, and lodgings for the head of the college and other dons . College buildings range from medieval to modern, but most are made up of interlinked quadrangles or courtyards, with
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1632-602: The first men's colleges to admit women were Brasenose , Hertford , Jesus , St Catherine's and Wadham . By 2008 all colleges had become co-residential, although one of the Permanent Private Halls, St Benet's Hall , did not start to admit postgraduate women until Michaelmas term 2014 and women undergraduates until Michaelmas 2016. Some colleges, such as Kellogg , Linacre , Nuffield , St Antony's , St Cross and Wolfson only admit postgraduate students. All Souls admits only fellows. Harris Manchester
1683-456: The intercollegiate league for five seasons in a row and triumphing in the 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015 and 2017 rugby Cuppers , having also been finalists in 2008 and 2010. Keble College Boat Club , the college rowing club compete annually in Torpids and Summer Eights . Keble has also had significant success in football, with the college football team (colloquially known as KCFC) recently completing
1734-608: The interests of openness". Although the university says that the college listings are "not very significant", the 2005 table was the first Norrington Table with official data and also probably the first to be accurate. Dame Fiona Caldicott , the Chairman of the Conference of Colleges, said that in previous years some students had used the Data Protection Act 1998 to ensure their results were not published, rendering
1785-608: The list included Nicholas Humphrey , Tim Ingold and Steve Rayner ; in 2012 Robin Dunbar , Kevin Warwick and Margaret Boden were featured. The Keble Ball is planned by the student committee to coincide with the day-long graduation ceremony in Trinity term week 2, although in 2020 the 150 year commemoration ball was held in week 9 outside of term. Keble fields several sports teams. Its rugby teams have been successful in winning
1836-540: The lowest offer rate and is thus considered the most selective college. On the other hand, Kellogg College and St Antony College are among the least selective colleges, typically characterised by higher offer rates. The table below exhibits the offer rates for postgraduate applications across each college over multiple academic years. For some years, an unofficial ranking of undergraduate colleges by performance in Final Honour Schools examinations, known as
1887-682: The main methods of teaching in Oxford) and classes are the responsibility of colleges, while lectures, examinations, laboratories, and the central library are run by the university. Students normally have most of their tutorials in their own college, but often have a couple of modules taught at other colleges or even at faculties and departments. Most colleges take both graduates and undergraduates, but several are for graduates only. Undergraduate and graduate students may name preferred colleges in their applications. For undergraduate students, an increasing number of departments practise reallocation to ensure that
1938-539: The number of graduate rooms. This was the largest single donation in the college's history. Work on construction of the H B Allen Centre, designed by Rick Mather , began in 2016, with the first graduate students moving in in October 2018. Keble previously owned several houses across Oxford which were used as additional student accommodation, but these were sold following the purchase of the Acland site. The H B Allen Centre
1989-561: The ratios between potential students and subject places available at each college are as uniform as possible. For the Department of Physics, reallocation is done on a random basis after a shortlist of candidates is drawn upon and before candidates are invited for interviews at the university. For graduate students, many colleges express a preference for candidates who plan to undertake research in an area of interest of one of its fellows. St Hugh's College , for example, states that it accepts graduate students in most subjects, principally those in
2040-500: The release of a student publication calling itself The Breezeblock , containing both college gossip and a satirical take on college life. Each graduate is given a red brick along with their degree certificates. Keble were champions of the television quiz show University Challenge in 1975 and 1987. Each year the Advanced Studies Centre invites distinguished speakers for their Creativity Lecture Series. In 2011
2091-524: The television detective show Endeavour , with the young Morse investigating the murder of a don. Colleges of the University of Oxford The University of Oxford has 36 colleges , three societies, and four permanent private halls (PPHs) of religious foundation. The colleges and PPHs are autonomous self-governing corporations within the university. These colleges are not only houses of residence, but have substantial responsibility for teaching undergraduate students. Generally tutorials (one of
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2142-424: The then commonly held, and highly dismissive, view: "the monstrosities of architecture erected by order of the dons of Oxford and Cambridge colleges in the days of William Butterfield and Alfred Waterhouse give daily pain to posterity." Sir Kenneth Clark recalled that during his Oxford years it was generally believed in Oxford not only that Keble College was "the ugliest building in the world" but that its architect
2193-669: 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. It remains distinctive for its once-controversial 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
2244-406: The university for accounting purposes. The Oxford University Act 1854 and the university statute De aulis privatis (On private Halls) of 1855, allowed any Master of Arts aged at least 28 years to open a private hall after obtaining a licence to do so. One such was Charsley's Hall . The Universities Tests Act 1871 opened all university degrees and positions to men who were not members of
2295-544: The unofficial tables inaccurate. A tradition of the university is a friendly rivalry between colleges . Often, two neighbouring colleges will be rivals, and each college will pride itself in its athletic victories over the other one. Examples include: The Oxford and Cambridge colleges have served as an architectural inspiration for Collegiate Gothic Architecture, used by a number of American universities including Princeton University and Washington University in St. Louis since
2346-473: Was John Ruskin , author of The Stones of Venice . The college is built of red, blue, and white bricks; the main structure is of red brick, with white and blue patterned banding. The builders were Parnell & Son of Rugby. On its construction, Keble was not always admired within the university. Undergraduates at St John's College started the Destroy Keble Society , which aimed to dismantle
2397-410: Was a Law graduate of Keble. In 2005, Keble College featured in the national UK press when its bursar, Roger Boden, was found guilty of racial discrimination by an employment tribunal. An appeal was launched by the college and Boden against the tribunal's judgement, resulting in a financial out-of-court settlement with the aggrieved employee. In Christmas of 2017, a team of alumni from Keble College won
2448-527: Was completed in 1853 after eight years of work and originally hung in the Royal Academy . It was then given as a gift to the college. Hunt originally wanted the painting to be hung in the main chapel but the architect rejected this idea, as a result, he painted another version of the painting which is in St Paul's Cathedral , London. This copy was painted by Hunt when he was nearly 70. Keble College has
2499-518: Was established. The collegiate system arose because Oxford University came into existence through the gradual agglomeration of numerous independent institutions. Over the centuries several different types of college have emerged and disappeared. The first academic houses were monastic halls. Of the dozens established during the 12th–15th centuries, none survived the Reformation . The modern Dominican permanent private hall of Blackfriars (1921)
2550-616: Was laid by the Archbishop of Canterbury on St Mark 's Day (25 April, John Keble's birthday). The college first opened in 1870, taking in thirty students, whilst the chapel was opened on St Mark's Day 1876. Accordingly, the college continues to celebrate St Mark's Day each year. Butterfield produced a notable example of Victorian Gothic architecture, among his few secular buildings, which Pevsner characterised as "actively ugly", and which, according to Charles Eastlake , defied criticism. The social historian G. M. Trevelyan expressed
2601-425: Was officially opened by Prince William, Duke of Cambridge on 3 October 2019. The college publishes a termly magazine called The Brick which is sent to Keble alumni to update them on college life. Students used to publish an irreverent spoof version on the last Friday of each term, also named The Brick , recording college gossip but this version has not been published since Hilary 2006. The college has since seen
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