The University of Oxford has 36 colleges, three societies, and four permanent private halls of religious foundation. The colleges and PPHs are autonomous self-governing corporations within the univers
Aerial view (looking north) of many of the colleges of the University of Oxford
Brasenose College in the 1670s
Balliol College, Oxford
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Balliol College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, England. Founded in 1263 by nobleman John I de Balliol, it has a claim to be the oldest college in Oxford and the English-speaking
Colleges of the University of Oxford
…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 is some dispute over the exact order and precisely when each began taking students. The…
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Balliol College Hall and SCR (from Fellows' Garden), Oxford
William Butterfield's chapel
Interior of the chapel