Brasenose College, Oxford

Brasenose College

Brasenose College is one of the colleges of the University of Oxford. The college is on the site of the earlier Brazenose hall. It is not known when Brasenose Hall became Brasenose College. The college uses the year 1509 as the date of its foundation as a college. That is the earliest written record of the college. A royal charter was issued for the "King's Hall and College at Brasenose" on 15 January 1512.

The original Brasenose College doorknocker

The name of the college is believed to refer to an ornate brass doorknocker in the shape of a nose, that was once on the door of its main hall. The name was in use at least as early as the 1330s. It is believed that the original doorknocker was removed by students in the 14th Century and taken to Stamford in Lincolnshire. In 1890, the college purchased a house in Stamford. The house had been referred to as "Brasenose" since the 17th Century. The house had a 12th-Century doorknocker, believed to be the doorknocker removed from the college. The college had the doorknocker returned to the college, and it now hangs in the college's main hall.

Brasenose College, Oxford Media

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  Brasenose College Oxford Coat Of Arms

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  An illustration of Brasenose in 1674

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  Brasenose College, seen from St Mary's. The entrance to Brasenose Lane is just right of the photo's center.

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  Brasenose College on the High Street, with St Mary's behind it.

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  The High Street (south) end courtyard of Brasenose College, as seen from St Mary's (to the east), looking towards All Saints.

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  New Quad photographed by Henry Taunt in 1909 with the chapel at left.

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  The modernised Medieval Kitchen which was renovated in 2010–12, along with other changes to dining and some living rooms, in a series of building work known as "Project Q"

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  The entrance to the undergraduate Frewin Annexe.