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Brasenose College
Brasenose College Lodge (cropped).jpg
A shield blazoned as "Tierced in pale, Argent, a chevron sable between three roses gules seeded or, barbed vert; or, an escutcheon gules, two lions of England in pale or, on a chief azure Our Lady crowned seated on a tombstone issuant from the chief, in her dexter arm the Infant Jesus, in her sinister arm a sceptre, all or, ensigned with a mitre proper; quarterly, first and fourth argent, a chevron between three bugle-horns stringed sable, second and third argent, a chevron between three crosses crosslet sable."
Blazon: see below
University Oxford
Location Radcliffe Square
Coordinates 51°45′12″N 1°15′17″W / 51.753206°N 1.254731°W / 51.753206; -1.254731
Full name The Principal and Scholars of the King’s Hall and College of Brasenose in Oxford
Latin name Aula regia et collegium aenei nasi
Established 1509; 514 years ago (1509)
Named after Bronze door knocker
Previous names Brazen Nose College
Sister college Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Principal John Bowers
Undergraduates 375 (2021)
Postgraduates 235 (2021)
Boat club Brasenose College Boat Club
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Brasenose College, Oxford is located in Oxford city centre
Brasenose College, Oxford
Location in Oxford city centre

Brasenose College (BNC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It began as Brasenose Hall in the 13th century, before being founded as a college in 1509. The library and chapel were added in the mid-17th century and the new quadrangle in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

For 2019-20, Brasenose placed 7th in the Norrington Table (an unofficial measure of performance in undergraduate degree examinations). In a recent Oxford Barometer Survey, Brasenose’s undergraduates registered 98% overall satisfaction. In recent years around 80% of the UK undergraduate intake have been from state schools.

Brasenose is home to one of the oldest rowing clubs in the world, Brasenose College Boat Club.

Images for kids

  • The Brazen Nose knocker

    The original door knocker, now hanging in the college's dining hall. (A copy is on a door in Stamford School.)

  • Brasenose College from Loggan's Oxonia Illustrata

    An illustration of Brasenose in 1674

  • Brasenose College from St Marys

    Brasenose College, viewed from St Mary's (in High Street). The entrance to Brasenose Lane is just to the right of the centre of the picture.

  • Brasenose College from the High Street

    Brasenose College as it fronts on to the High Street, Oxford, with St Mary's in the background.

  • The western building of Brasenose College from St Marys

    The High Street (south) end courtyard of Brasenose College, as seen from St Mary's (to the east), looking towards All Saints.

  • Photograph of New Quad, Brasenose College, Oxford in 1900

    New Quad photographed by Henry Taunt in 1909. The chapel is on the left.

  • Mediaeval Kitchen at Brasenose College

    The modernised Medieval Kitchen which was renovated in 2010–12, along with other changes to dining and some living rooms, in a series of building work known as "Project Q"

  • Brasenose Frewin Annexe

    The entrance to the undergraduate Frewin Annexe.

  • BNCBC rowing jersey 1840s

    An 1840s depiction of Brasenose college's rowing outfit

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