Worcester College, Oxford

Main entrance-Worcester College

Worcester College is one of the colleges of the University of Oxford. It was founded in 1714. The college is located on the site of Gloucester College, which was founded in 1283 as place of study by a Benedictine Abbey. Eventually fifteen abbeys shared the college. In 1539 the abbeys were dissolved. For a time, the college served as the palace of the bishop of Oxford. In 1560, the buildings were purchased by Thomas White, and became known as Gloucester Hall. Some of the original buildings survive today.

Worcester College, Oxford Media

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  Front view of medieval cottages.

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  Gloucester Hall in 1675, housed largely in the surviving buildings of Gloucester College

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  Worcester College in the early 19th century. The projecting wings are the Hall (left) and the Chapel (right)

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  The interior of The Chapel

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  Worcester's playing fields

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  The lake and the playing field

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  The main quadrangle of Worcester College; on the left are the medieval buildings known as "the cottages", the most substantial surviving part of Gloucester College, Worcester's predecessor

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  The 15th century gate of Gloucester College, surviving to the side of the current gate and bearing the arms of the abbeys of Winchcombe, St Albans and Ramsey