St Anne's College, Oxford

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St Anne's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. What is now St Anne's College began life as part of the "Association for the Education of Women", the first institution in Oxford to allow for the education of women (see: Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford), then later the "Society of Home Students". In 1942 it became the "St Anne's Society", and received a university charter to be founded as a women-only college in 1952. It became coeducational in 1979. Today it is one of the larger colleges in Oxford, with around 450 undergraduate and 150 graduate students, in a roughly equal mix of men and women. As of 2006, the college had an estimated financial endowment of £40m^[1].

Contents 1 Location 2 College buildings 3 Notable former students 4 Academics/teachers 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Location

St Anne's College is located in North Oxford, on land donated by St John's College. Its grounds are bounded by Woodstock Road and Banbury Road to the west and east respectively, and Bevington Road to the north. They extend as far south as 48 Woodstock Road on the west, and 27 Banbury Road on the east side. The College formerly owned a number of houses throughout Oxford used for undergraduate accommodation; these have been largely sold off to fund the building of the Ruth Deech Building (completed 2005).

[edit] College buildings

Hartland House was the first purpose-built College building. It houses the Library, the junior and senior common rooms, and some administrative offices. There are six purpose-built student accommodation blocks: the Gatehouse, Rayne, Wolfson, Claire Palley, Trenaman House, and the Ruth Deech Building.

The Gatehouse, built in the 1960s, was the winner of an award for its architecture. It is now considered by many to be unsightly. As well as undergraduate rooms, it used to house the College Lodge, until the completion of the Ruth Deech Building.

Rayne and Wolfson are virtually identical in design, and house administrative offices on the ground floor as well as student rooms.

Claire Palley is a later building, and was the first accommodation block to have en-suite rooms. It also houses the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre. It was named after a former Principal of the college.

Trenaman House (opened November 18, 1995) also contains en-suite student rooms, as well as the middle common room and some communal college facilities on the ground floors. It was named after Nancy Trenaman (1919-2002), the sixth Principal of the college (1966-1984).

Robert Saunders House (opened in 1998 by Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford) provides accommodation for graduate students in Summertown, an area in the north of Oxford. It was named after a former bursar of the college, who did much to strengthen its finances.

The Ruth Deech Building (opened June 18, 2005)^[2] is the most recent College building. It houses extensive conference facilities (a lecture theatre, seminar rooms, and dining facilities) on the lower ground floor, in addition to the new College Lodge on the upper ground floor, and 113 en-suite student rooms.

In addition to the purpose-built accommodation buildings, a number of other houses on site are owned by the college and are used for various purposes.

1 - 10 Bevington Road, 58/60 Woodstock Road, and 35, 39 and 41 Banbury Road are used for undergraduate accommodation. 39 and 41 Banbury Road also house the College Bar, 7/8 Bevington Road and 35 Banbury Road also contain teaching rooms, and 58/60 Woodstock Road also contains student facilities such as a gym and laundrette.

37 Banbury Road is used for offices and teaching rooms.

27 Banbury Road is used for offices of College support staff such as the College nurse, and for teaching rooms.

48 and 50 Woodstock Road contain teaching rooms and seminar rooms. 50 Woodstock Road also contains the College's music practice rooms.

Other College buildings include the Dining Hall (also used for College bops, and collection examinations) and attached kitchens, and various outbuildings attached to some of the houses.

St Anne's College has played host to the Oxford Round Table.

[edit] Notable former students

• Danny Alexander
• Mary Archer
• Karen Armstrong
• Louise Bagshawe
• Wendy Beckett
• Professor Dame Gillian Beer
• Tina Brown
• Frances Cairncross
• Edwina Currie
• Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech
• Anne Dreydel
• Rose Dugdale
• UA Fanthorpe
• Helen Fielding
• Zoe Heller
• Elizabeth Jennings
• Martha Kearney
• Penelope Lively
• Max More (formerly O'Connor)
• Melanie Phillips
• Libby Purves
• Jill Paton Walsh
• Sir Simon Rattle CBE
• Dame Cicely Saunders
• Susan Sontag
• Pauline Stainer
• Polly Toynbee
• Jenny Uglow
• Mara Yamauchi

See also Former students of St Anne's College.

[edit] Academics/teachers

• Simon Donaldson
• A. C. Grayling
• Nick Middleton
• Iris Murdoch
• Graham Nelson

[edit] References

1. ^ Oxford College Endowment Incomes, 1973-2006 (updated July 2007)
2. ^ St Anne's College Opens New Building (PDF). Conference Oxford Newsletter. Retrieved on 2008-04-28.

[edit] External links

• College official website
• Virtual Tour of St. Anne's College
• St Anne's JCR Website

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