St Cross College, Oxford

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St Cross College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. As an all-graduate college, it is one of the smaller ones in terms of student numbers. The college is housed in traditional-style buildings in St Giles. It is keen to match the structure, life and support of undergraduate colleges, despite being an all-graduate college.

The establishment of the college, together with that of Iffley (now Wolfson) College, arose out of pressure on the University, during the early 1960s, to solve the related problems of senior members of the University (teaching, library, museum and administrative staff), who were entitled under statute to hold a college fellowship, but who had not been elected, and of the increasing numbers of graduate students, who needed a college affiliation.

The college was formally founded in 1965, close to the parish church of St Cross, and accepted its first graduate students in the following year. St Cross initially occupied a small site on St Cross Road. In 1981 the college secured a 999 year lease on the entire site of Pusey House, excluding the chapel, on St Giles, in the centre of Oxford. In 1993 a new building (South Wing) was opened, incorporating a new, larger dining hall and additional accommodation.

External link

• St Cross College — official site

Categories: Colleges of the University of Oxford