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Keble College
Keble College Chapel - Oct 2006.jpg
Keble College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg
Blazon: Argent, a chevron engrailed gules, on a chief azure, three mullets pierced or
University Oxford
Location Parks Road
Coordinates 51°45′32″N 1°15′28″W / 51.758899°N 1.257715°W / 51.758899; -1.257715
Latin name Collegium Keblense
Motto Plain living and high thinking
Established 1870 (1870)
Named for John Keble
Architect William Butterfield
Sister college Selwyn College, Cambridge
Warden Sir Jonathan Phillips
Officer Warden-Elect (Warden from October 2022) Sir Michael Jacobs
Undergraduates 425
Postgraduates 217
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Keble College, Oxford is located in Oxford city centre
Keble College, Oxford
Location in Oxford city centre

Keble College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its main buildings are on Parks Road, opposite the University Museum and the University Parks. The college is bordered to the north by Keble Road, to the south by Museum Road, and to the west by Blackhall Road.

Keble was established in 1870, having been built as a monument to John Keble, who had been a leading member of the Oxford Movement which sought to stress the Catholic nature of the Church of England. Consequently, the college's original teaching focus was primarily theological, although the college now offers a broad range of subjects, reflecting the diversity of degrees offered across the wider university. In the period after the Second World War, the trends were towards scientific courses (proximity to the university science area east of the University Museum influenced this). As originally constituted, it was for men only and the fellows were mostly bachelors resident in the college. Like many of Oxford's men's colleges, Keble admitted its first mixed-sex cohort in 1979.

It remains distinctive for its once-controversial neo-gothic red-brick buildings designed by William Butterfield. The buildings are also notable for breaking from Oxbridge tradition by arranging rooms along corridors rather than around staircases, in order that the scouts could supervise the comings and goings of visitors (Girton College, Cambridge, similarly breaks this tradition).

Keble is one of the larger colleges of the University of Oxford, with 433 undergraduates and 245 graduate students in 2011/12. Keble's sister college at the University of Cambridge is Selwyn College.

Notable members of Keble

See also: List of alumni of Keble College, Oxford; List of Wardens of Keble College, Oxford; List of members of the Council of Keble College, Oxford; and List of Honorary Fellows of Keble College, Oxford

Images for kids

  • Portrait of John Keble (cropped)

    John Keble, a leading member of the Oxford Movement, after whom the college is named

  • Keble SCR

    Senior Common Room

  • Keble College Dining Hall 2, Oxford, UK - Diliff

    Keble Hall

  • Oxford - Keble College - 0638

    Keble Library

  • William Matthison, Keble College

    Parks Road front, 1910

  • Liddon Quad Keble

    Liddon Quad

  • PuseyQuad Keble

    Pusey Quad

  • Oxford - Keble College - 0689

    Bumps results of the boat club on a wall in Keble

  • Keble Brick 2016-05-08 06.31.07

    Keble Brick

  • Hunt Light of the World

    The Light of the World (later version)

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