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Oxford’s Chapels

To say that Oxford has a wealth of Chapels would be a huge understatement, with the list currently totalling 45 separate places of worship (or former):

Chapel Name, College (current chapel date) | dates of windows –

  1. All Saints Church / Lincoln College Library, Lincoln College (?) DECONSECRATED
  2. Bartlemas Chapel, Diocese of Oxford (1329)
  3. Chapel of Brasenose College, Brasenose College (1656)
  4. Chapel, St. Benet’s Hall (?)
  5. Christ Church Cathedral, Christ Church (1529) | C14; C17 – Bernard & Abraham Van Linge; C19 – William Morris & Edward-Burne Jones
  6. Church of St Peter-le-Bailey, St. Peter’s College (1874) | Henry Holiday / John Hayward / Ervin Bossanyi
  7. College Chapel, Corpus Christi College (1517)
  8. College Chapel, Jasus College (1621) | 1856 – Hedgeland
  9. College Chapel, St. Hilda’s College (?)
  10. Damon Wells Chapel, Pembroke College (1732) | 1884 – Charles Kempe
  11. Hertford College Chapel, Hertford College (1908)
  12. Keble Chapel, Keble College (1876) | 1876 – Alexander Gibbs
  13. Mansfield College Chapel, Mansfield College (?)
  14. St. Cross / Historical Collections Centre, Balliol College (?) DECONSECRATED
  15. St. John the Baptist, Merton College (1280) | 1289; C14; C15
  16. St. Luke’s Chapel, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter (?) DECONSECRATED
  17. St. Nicholas, Summer Fields School (1896) | 1896-1914 – Henry Holiday
  18. St. Paul / Freud arts café (1836) DECONSECRATED
  19. St. Peter-in-the-East / Library of St. Edmund Hall (?) DECONSECRATED
  20. The ‘new’ College Chapel, Exeter College (1859) | C19 – Clayton & Bell
  21. The Chapel of Harris Manchester College, Harris Manchester College (?) | 1893-1898 – William Morris / Edward-Burne Jones
  22. The Chapel, All Souls College (1440) | C15- John Glazier; 1861 – Hardman; C19 – Clayton & Bell
  23. The Chapel, Balliol College (1525) | C16; 1635 – Abraham van Linge; & 1912
  24. The Chapel, Lady Margret Hall (?)
  25. The Chapel, Lincoln College (1639) | 1641 – Abraham van Linge; 1861 – M. & A. O’Connor
  26. The Chapel, Magdalen College, Magdalen College (?)
  27. The Chapel, New College (1386) | 1386 – Thomas & John Glazier / Frankelen; 1735 – William Price; 1765-74 – William Peckitt; 1779 – Thomas Jervais
  28. The Chapel, Nuffiled College (1961) |1961 – Patrick Reyntiens
  29. The Chapel, Pusey House (?)
  30. The Chapel, Regent’s Park College (?)
  31. The Chapel, Somervile College (1935)
  32. The Chapel, St. Edmund Hall (C17) | William Morris / Edward-Burne Jones / Philip Webb
  33. The Chapel, St. Edward’s School (1878)
  34. The Chapel, St. Hugh’s College (1916)
  35. The Chapel, St. John’s College (1530) | Ervin Bossanyi
  36. The Chapel, University College (1629-31) | Abraham van Linge
  37. The Chapel, Wadham College (1610) | 1622 – Bernard van Linge / Evans of Shrewsury
  38. The Chapel, Wycliffe Hall (1896)
  39. The Oriel Chapel, Oriel College (1642) | 1767 – W. Peckitt; 1870 – Clayton & Bell; 1885 – H.E. Woodridgh; 2001 -Vivienne Haig & Douglas Hogg
  40. The Queen’s College Chapel, The Queen’s College (1719) | 1635 – Abraham van Linge;
  41. Trinity College Chapel, Trinity College (1691-4) | 1885
  42. Westminster Chapel, Oxford Brookes University (?)
  43. Worcester College Chapel, Worcester College (1720) | 1864 – Henry Holiday

 

  1. College Library, St. Anthony’s College (?) DECONSECRATED
  2. Library oriel, Harris Manchester College (?) DECONSECRATED

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