St Edmund Hall
Last surviving medieval academic hall, with a flower-filled quad, medieval well and seventeenth-century chapel.
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This guide to St Edmund Hall in Oxford starts with a puzzle over its age, running from a saint teaching here in the eleven-nineties to a charter signed in the twentieth century. It follows the medieval halls of Oxford, the reformers of the eighteen-eighties who wanted them gone, and the neighbouring college with designs on this one. Best heard standing in the front quad, beside the old well.
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