One of the foundation Oxford colleges (1897), with 9 students, this is now a huge settlement of females up the river in the education zone (lots of private schools, colleges and river park). It started taking in males some time ago. Now there are 600 students, with extensive and beautiful grounds.
Women were not deemed fit to receive degrees, nor be members of the university until 1920 (so what I wonder did they do in the 23 years before that?)
It has a Fellows’ Garden – hidden from view by tall hedgerows – and a Fellow’s Lawn, on which walking is forbidden. Actually we did walk on the hallowed grass of the lawn and the fellows garden – we went accross the park to the punt place the back way – via boat across a moat and via the LMH gardens (because the bus driver’s instructions weren’t all that accurate after all, forcing us to be a little creative with our route).
Happily nothing bad happened to us but we can reveal all here – the gardens do look good, excellent for thinking in, here they are:
The whole place is pretty impressive – this is the bike shed – no messing around with simple structures here.
Lovely joints on the roof
Cloister walk – a lot of thoughts have been thought here I think.
