Chapel īuilt between 14, the college chapel remained largely unchanged until the Commonwealth. In 2020, the College decided to cease referring to the Library as ‘The Codrington Library’ as part of a set of "steps to address the problematic nature of the Codrington legacy", which comes from wealth derived from slave plantations. This was originally placed on the south wall of the Chapel, but in 1877 was moved to the quadrangle (above the central entrance to the Codrington Library). Sir Christopher Wren was a fellow from 1653, and in 1658 produced a sundial for the college.
The collections are particularly strong in law and history (especially military history). Today the library comprises some 185,000 items, about a third of which were published before 1800. The new library was completed in 1751 to the designs of Nicholas Hawksmoor and has been in continuous use since then. Under the terms of his will Codrington bequeathed books worth £6,000 to the college in addition to £10,000 in currency for the library to be rebuilt and endowed. Christopher Codrington was born in Barbados, and amassed a fortune from his sugar plantation in the West Indies. Codrington was an undergraduate at Oxford and later became colonial governor of the Leeward Islands. The All Souls College Library (formerly known as the Codrington Library) was founded through a 1710 bequest from Christopher Codrington (1668–1710), a fellow of the college and a wealthy slave and sugar plantation owner. Buildings and architecture All Souls College Library Īll Souls College Library, showing Wren's sundial over the central door įor over five hundred years All Souls College admitted only men women were first allowed to join the college as fellows in 1979, the same year as many other previously all-male colleges in the university.
Four Bible Clerks remained on the foundation until 1924. All Souls did formerly have undergraduates: Robert Hovenden (Warden of the college from 1571 to 1614) introduced undergraduates to provide the fellows with servientes (household servants), but this was abandoned by the end of the Commonwealth. Today the college is primarily a graduate research institution, with no undergraduate members. The Statutes provided for a warden and forty fellows all to take Holy Orders: 24 to study arts, philosophy and theology and 16 to study civil or canon law. The college was founded by Henry VI of England and Henry Chichele (fellow of New College and Archbishop of Canterbury), in 1438, to commemorate the victims of the Hundred Years' War.
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