The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the w
Merton College's Mob Quad, the oldest quadrangle of the university, constructed between 1288 and 1378
Balliol, one of Oxford's oldest colleges
An engraving of Christ Church, Oxford, 1742
Lady Margaret Hall, founded in 1878
Merton College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the 1260s when Walter de Merton, chancellor to Henry III and later to Edward I, fir
South facade as seen from Merton Field
Walter de Merton, (c. 1205 – 27 October 1277), founder of Merton
Henry Savile, Warden from 1585 to 1621, had great influence on the development of the college.
St Alban Hall, pictured in 1837, engraving by John Le Keux from a drawing by F. Mackenzie