St Edmund Hall (often called Teddy Hall) is one of Oxford’s historic colleges, claiming origins as a medieval hall from the 13th century and full college status only in 1957. It occupies a compact but architecturally rich site off Queen’s Lane, centred on a notably picturesque front quadrangle and the former parish church of St Peter‑in‑the‑East, now the library.
it has its own graveyard! The Hall’s library occupies the deconsecrated church of St Peter‑in‑the‑East, a Norman building whose core dates from the 12th century; its churchyard now forms part of the library garden. Gravestones in the former churchyard include that of James Sadler, the first English aeronaut, and a whimsical stone recording a death on “31 February,”
Interesting facts....
A medieval miracle story has Edmund of Abingdon (who we believe the college was named after), then a young scholar in Oxford, rising from his seat in class just moments before a stone fell from the masonry and smashed the chair where he had been sitting.
Architectural Illustration: St Edmund Hall. Oxford
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