Trinity Cottages
by Ian Fraser
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The Chapel and Lodgings
by Ian Fraser
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The Jackson Building
by Ian Fraser
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The Tower
by Ian Fraser
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Trinity, Blackwell and the White Horse
by Ian Fraser
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The Garden Quad
by Sarah Moncrieff
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Durham Quad and the Chapel
by Rob Howard
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Trinity College was founded by Sir Thomas Pope in 1555. Pope was a trusted privy counsellor of Mary Tudor and it was from Mary and Philip that he received royal approval for the college. His wife, Lady Elizabeth Pope, was a particularly influential figure in Trinity's early years. The Fellows, all men, were required to take Holy Orders and remain unmarried. No new buildings were erected in 1555, for Thomas Pope had purchased the site and buildings of Durham College, which provided a place of study in Oxford for a small number of monks from the Benedictine Cathedral Church at Durham. The only surviving Durham College building is Trinity's Old Library, which was completed in 1421. The name Trinity is thought to echo the original dedication of Durham College to the Trinity, the Virgin and St Cuthbert.
Front Quadrangle was created in the late 19th century. The open and spacious aspect of this quadrangle, unique in Oxford, is owed to the imaginative plans of the Victorian architect Sir Thomas Graham Jackson. The building that bears his name was built to house undergraduates in 1883-5. The roof line is enlivened by Dutch gables in the style of Elizabethan and Jacobean country houses. |
