All Souls College, Oxford facts for kids

Quick facts for kids All Souls College
Blazon: Or, a chevron between three cinquefoils gules (arms of Henry Chichele)
University	Oxford
Location	High Street, Oxford
Coordinates	51°45′12″N 1°15′11″W / 51.753279°N 1.253041°W / 51.753279; -1.253041
Full name	College of All Souls of the Faithful Departed
Latin name	Collegium Omnium Animarum Fidelium Defunctorum de Oxonia
Established	1438
Named after	Feast of All Souls
Sister college	Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Warden	Sir John Vickers
Undergraduates	None
Postgraduates	8 (2017)
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All Souls College (official name: College of the Souls of All the Faithful Departed) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows (i.e. full members of the college's governing body). It has no undergraduate members, but each year recent graduate and postgraduate students at Oxford are eligible to apply for a small number of examination fellowships through a competitive examination (once described as "the hardest exam in the world") and, for those shortlisted after the examinations, an interview.

The college entrance is on the north side of the High Street whilst it has a long frontage onto Radcliffe Square. To its east is The Queen's College whilst Hertford College is to the north of All Souls.

The current warden (head of the college) is Sir John Vickers, a graduate of Oriel College, Oxford.

Images for kids

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  All Souls College Library, showing Wren's sundial over the central door

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  Isaiah Berlin – philosopher

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  T. E. Lawrence – "Lawrence of Arabia"

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  Baron Hugh Trevor-Roper – historian

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  Robert Recorde – inventor of the Western "equals sign" (=).

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  Brownlow North – Bishop of Lichfield in 1771, Bishop of Worcester in 1774, and Bishop of Winchester in 1781. Portrait by Tilly Kettle.

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  George Nathaniel Curzon by John Cooke – British Conservative statesman who was Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary. Portrait after John Singer Sargent.

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  The gates on Radcliffe Square

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  A view of All Souls from the Radcliffe Square gate, showing Nicholas Hawksmoor's 'gothicised classical' elevation.

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  The south eastern corner of All Souls College, abutting Radcliffe Square

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  All Souls Quad abutting High Street

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  All Souls College as viewed from New College Lane

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  The spires of All Souls

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  All Souls College at twilight

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  View from St Mary the Virgin's tower (with All Souls on the right)

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  All Souls College Chapel - the stone altar reredos seen through the later classical screen

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  All Souls College

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  All Souls College

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  All Souls College. Though 'gothick' externally, this range designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor is completely classical inside.