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Somerville College Chapel

1935 establishments in EnglandChapels of the University of OxfordChurches completed in 1935Somerville College, Oxford
Somerville College Chapel
Somerville College Chapel

Somerville College Chapel is the chapel of Somerville College, Oxford. The chapel is unique among Oxford colleges because it has no religious affiliation - reflecting the non-sectarian foundation of the college as place for the higher education of women. It can be seen as both a manifestation of the aspirations of liberal Christianity in the interwar years, including the advancement of women and ecumenism, and of the contestation of the role of religion in higher education among elites in the same period. The chapel is made of dimension stone ashlar masonry and is located opposite Somerville College Library, on the southern side of the main quad. When he visited the chapel in the early 1970s, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner described it as bleakly classical, ashlar, of three windows with narrower altar and lobby protections, bleak also inside - unloved-looking somehow.

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Somerville College Chapel
Woodstock Road, Oxford City Centre

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OX2 6HD Oxford, City Centre
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