33-647: Mansfield College may refer to: Mansfield College, Oxford , one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England Mansfield College of Art , merged with Nottinghamshire Technical College in 1976 to form West Nottinghamshire College of Further Education Mansfield University of Pennsylvania , a public university in Mansfield, Pennsylvania, United States Mansfield College (Hong Kong) [ zh ] ,
66-418: A royal charter was awarded giving the institution full college status. The college grounds are located on Mansfield Road, near the centre of Oxford. As of December 2023, the college comprises approximately 245 undergraduates, 145 graduates and 40 visiting students. There are around 40 fellows. Helen Mountfield , a barrister and legal scholar, has been the principal of the college since 2018. The college
99-457: A Nonconformist college at Oxford. Spring Hill College moved to Oxford in 1886 and was renamed Mansfield College after George Mansfield and his sister Elizabeth. The Victorian buildings, designed by Basil Champneys on a site bought from Merton College , were formally opened in October 1889. Mansfield was the first Nonconformist college to open in Oxford. Initially the college accepted men only,
132-714: A chapel and residence hall at Linacre College (1907–1909), and the Rhodes Building in Oriel College (1908–1911). His Cambridge works include the Archaeological Museum (1883), now Peterhouse Theatre, the Divinity and Literary School and Newnham College (between 1875 and 1910), for which he is credited for bringing a 'touch of lightness' to the college and is acknowledged for his attention to both construction details, and to cost. Champneys' buildings elsewhere include
165-465: A cinema, moot court and performing arts space. It was nominated for the Royal Institute of British Architects South Regional Awards 2019. The Norrington Table is an annual ranking of the colleges of the University of Oxford by number and class of degrees awarded. In 2019 Mansfield ranked 5th out of 30 Colleges in the table. The university advises that due to the small number of degrees awarded
198-574: A former secondary school in Knutsford Terrace , Hong Kong Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mansfield College . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mansfield_College&oldid=1128579959 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
231-615: A portfolio published in 1871, Victorian art and originality for the British Architect published in 1887, and The architecture of Queen Victoria's reign for the Art Journal , published in 1887. A Quiet Corner of England: Studies of Landscape and Architecture in Winchelsea, Rye and Romney Marsh was published in 1875 after being circulated as a portfolio and a work regarding his mother-in-law, Adelaide Drummond, A Retrospect and Memoir ,
264-554: Is currently a visiting professor. Honorary fellows of the college include Jimmy Carter , 39th President of the US; Shami Chakrabarti , former director of the civil rights group Liberty and chancellor of Oxford Brookes University ; journalist and economist Will Hutton ; politician Paddy Ashdown ; actress Dame Maggie Smith ; US senator Hillary Clinton ; and barrister Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws . Basil Champneys Basil Champneys (17 September 1842 – 5 April 1935)
297-617: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mansfield College, Oxford Mansfield College, Oxford is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in Oxford , England . The college was founded in Birmingham in 1838 as a college for Nonconformist students. It moved to Oxford in 1886 and was renamed Mansfield College after George Mansfield and his sister Elizabeth. In 1995
330-457: Is in danger of demolition due to Staffordshire County Council wishing to give the land away to a land developer. Churches by Champneys include his father's parish church, St Luke's, Kentish Town (1867–1870), the sailors' church of St Mary Star of the Sea, Hastings (1878), and St Chad, Slindon, Staffordshire (1894). In 1897 he did the painting of clouds, cherubs and scrolls on the ceiling of St George
363-849: Is one of Champneys' finest designs. Champneys' Oxford buildings include the Church of St Peter-le-Bailey (1872–1874), which serves as the chapel for St Peter's College , New Old Hall in Lady Margaret Hall (1881–1883), the Indian Institute (1883–1896), the Mansfield College library (1886–1889), the Robinson Tower at New College (1896), the Somerville College Library (1903), the St. Alban Hall buildings at Merton College (1905–1910),
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#1732852285193396-460: Is unconsecrated, and contains stained glass windows and statues depicting leading figures from Nonconformist movements, including Cromwell, Sir Henry Vane and William Penn . Chapel services are still conducted in a Nonconformist tradition. Over the years attendance at chapel services has declined and the make-up of the general student body no longer reflects the Nonconformist religious origins of
429-474: The Church of England . In 1871, the Universities Tests Act abolished all religious tests for non-theological degrees at Oxford, Cambridge and Durham Universities. For the first time the educational and social opportunities offered by Britain's premier institutions were open to some Nonconformists. The Prime Minister who enacted these reforms, William Ewart Gladstone , encouraged the creation of
462-624: The Savile Club , making acquaintances with Walter Pater , Robert Louis Stevenson , Sidney Colvin , and Coventry Patmore . In 1912 the Royal Institute of British Architects awarded Champneys its Royal Gold Medal for architecture. Champneys died at his home, 42 Frognall Lane, Hampstead, on 5 April 1935. He was the brother of Brasenose rowers Weldon Champneys (clergyman) and Sir Francis Champneys (doctor). His writings include an introduction to Henry Merritt: Art Criticism and Romance , published in 1879 and Churches about Queen Victoria Street ,
495-609: The Chapel Hall. Mansfield is known for placing emphasis on access, welfare and equality, with over 90% of students coming from a state school background. The college is recognized as a University College of Sanctuary by the UK charity City of Sanctuary , and has launched a fully-funded Sanctuary Scholarship. In 2011, Mansfield College adopted two distinct pre-supper graces, one religious and one non-religious, in an effort to be inclusive to persons of different faiths, or none. Prior to 2011,
528-615: The Surveyor of Llandaff Cathedral . Champneys set up his practice as an architect in 1867 in Queen's Square, London, close to the office of Morris & Co. In 1876 he married May Theresa Ella, the daughter of Maurice Drummond, descendant of William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan , and they had two sons and two daughters. Champneys was a member of the Century Guild, the Athenaeum Club and
561-482: The academic Michael Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker ). One of eight children, he attended Charterhouse School , showing a talent for mathematics and lacking in drawing skills. In 1860, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge . In 1864, he failed to get the 'first class' degree he had hoped for, achieving a second class in the Classical Tripos , and he took articles to study as an architect with John Prichard ,
594-569: The chapel of Mill Hill School , London (1898), buildings for Bedford College in Regent's Park (1910), King Edward VII School (King's Lynn) (1910–1913), the Butler Museum at Harrow School (1886), the museum at Winchester College (1898), and Bedford High School (1878–1892). Champneys also designed the Wilnecote Board School buildings as a slightly earlier work in 1877; this building
627-413: The college used the following, specifically Christian grace, adopted in 1953: Omnipotens Deus, clementissime Pater, omnis boni fons, in donis tuis gaudentes nomen tuum magnificamus, per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. Translated: Almighty God, Father of mercies and fount of every good, in the enjoyment of thy gifts we bless thy name, through Jesus Christ our Lord. The theologian Albert Schweitzer
660-435: The college was granted the status of permanent private hall within the University of Oxford and in 1995 a royal charter was awarded giving the institution full college status. Since the college was first formally integrated into the university structure in 1955, its Nonconformist aspects have gradually diminished. Until 2007 Mansfield trained United Reformed Church (URC) ordinands, who became fully matriculated members of
693-577: The college. The grounds of Mansfield College are located on Mansfield Road, near the centre of Oxford, and to the south of the Science Area . The grounds are near the University Parks and the River Cherwell . The college shares a boundary wall with Wadham College . The main building was designed by architect Basil Champneys , and built between 1887 and 1889. It houses the main college library,
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#1732852285193726-475: The first woman ( Constance Coltman ) being admitted to read for an external degree in 1913. During World War II , over forty members of staff from the Government Code & Cypher School moved to the college to work on British codes and cyphers. Like many of Oxford's colleges, Mansfield admitted its first mixed-sex cohort in 1979, having previously not accepted women to read for Oxford degrees. In 1955
759-413: The law library and the theology library. It is also home to the college's Junior Common Room, Middle Common Room, and Senior Common Room. The main college building encloses three sides of the large quadrangle, which has a circular lawn. The college also has several other buildings, primarily used for student accommodation, which are opposite the main building. Unusually, Mansfield College is not accessed via
792-504: The pioneers of the Queen Anne style , working on at least 100 buildings throughout England. John Rylands ' widow, Enriqueta Rylands , had admired the library Champneys had designed for Mansfield College, Oxford and hired him to develop the design on a more lavish scale – The John Rylands Memorial Library in Deansgate, Manchester took nine years to build before opening on 1 January 1900, it
825-435: The porter's lodge, the college staff maintaining that this is representative of its open and non-conformist ethos. However, early outlines of schematics for the college show an enclosed second quadrangle behind the main building, with the front tower serving as a gatehouse into this area. However, the college's constituent poverty and lack of funds owing to its non-conformist history prevented these plans from being executed. What
858-610: The rankings should be treated with caution. Mansfield's academic performance, as reflected in the Norrington Table, is currently within the same 10% range as most of the other colleges. Mansfield College Boat Club and a number of other college organisations are popular amongst the students, achieving results competitive with the larger colleges. Many of the sports teams are "combined" in partnership with Merton College . In Oxford tradition, Mansfield College holds regular formal dinners. These take place every Wednesday and Friday in
891-490: The university and received degrees. The Nonconformist history of the college is however still apparent in a few of its features. A portrait of Oliver Cromwell hangs in the Senior Common Room and portraits of the dissenters of 1662 hang in the library and the corridors of the main college building, together with portraits of Viscount Saye and Sele , John Hampden , Thomas Jollie and Hugh Peters . The college chapel
924-667: Was a special lecturer at the college and often performed on the chapel organ. The Rev. John Muddiman , G. B. Caird Fellow in New Testament Theology , and Michael Freeden , director of the Centre for Political Ideologies and founding editor of the Journal of Political Ideologies , are two recently retired (now emeritus) fellows of the college. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell , the British astrophysicist known for first discovering radio pulsars ,
957-484: Was an English architect and author whose most notable buildings include Manchester 's John Rylands Library , Somerville College Library (Oxford), Newnham College, Cambridge , Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford , Mansfield College, Oxford and Oriel College, Oxford 's Rhodes Building. Champneys was born in Whitechapel , London , on 17 September 1842 into a family with a modest income. His father, William Weldon Champneys ,
990-400: Was an Evangelical Vicar of St Mary's Church , Whitechapel (later Dean of Lichfield ). His mother, Mary Anne, was fourth daughter of the goldsmith and silversmith Paul Storr (his cousins thus including Rev. Vernon Storr , Archdeacon of Westminster from 1931 to 1936, Rev. Frank Utterton , Archdeacon of Surrey from 1906 to 1908, the artists Rex Whistler and Laurence Whistler , and
1023-424: Was founded in 1838, under the patronage of George Storer Mansfield (1764–1837) and his two sisters Sarah (1767–1853) and Elizabeth (1772–1847), as Spring Hill College, Birmingham , a college for Nonconformist students. In the nineteenth century, although students from all religious denominations were legally entitled to attend universities, they were forbidden by statute from taking degrees unless they conformed to
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1056-510: Was planned to be a traditional style porter's lodge can still be found in the main building: on 1902 plans, the tiny room opening directly on to the entrance hall is labelled 'Porter'. The latest addition to the college's facilities, the Hands Building, was designed by Rick Mather Architects and uses renewable energy sources. It incorporates 74 en-suite study bedrooms, seminar rooms and a 160-seat auditorium that will be used for lectures, as
1089-642: Was published in 1915. Champneys' correspondence has been preserved in the General Collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library . Believing that architecture was 'an art not a science' he joined the Art Workers Guild instead of the Royal Institute of British Architects . Although Champneys was able to work in the Gothic style that John Prichard preferred and taught, he later became one of
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