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A Permanent Private Hall (PPH) at the University of Oxford is an educational institution within the university. There are six Permanent Private Halls at Oxford, five of which admit undergraduates. [1] They were founded by different Christian denominations. The principal difference between a college and a PPH is that whereas the former are governed by the fellows of the college, the governance of a PPH resides, at least in part, with the corresponding Christian denomination.

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Colleges of the University of Oxford colleges and PPHs which are autonomous self-governing corporations within the university

The University of Oxford has 38 Colleges and six Permanent Private Halls (PPHs) of religious foundation. Colleges and PPHs are autonomous self-governing corporations within the university, and all teaching staff and students studying for a degree at the university must belong to one of the colleges or PPHs. These colleges are not only houses of residence, but have substantial responsibility for teaching undergraduate students. Generally tutorials and classes are the responsibility of colleges, while lectures, examinations, laboratories, and the central library are run by the university. Most colleges take both graduates and undergraduates, but several are for graduates only.

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Students at PPHs are members of the University of Oxford and have full access to the University's facilities and activities. Regent’s Park College is the largest PPH, and admits men and women of any age. St Benet’s Hall once only accepted male students, but now admits women as graduates and started to admit women as undergraduates in 2016. Blackfriars, St Stephen’s House and Wycliffe Hall accept only mature students. Campion Hall admits Jesuits and priests of other orders and congregations who are graduate students. It occasionally accepts non-ordained students and ministers of other churches. [2]

History

Private halls

The Oxford University Act 1854 and the university statute De aulis privatis (On private Halls) of 1855, allowed any Master of Arts aged at least 28 years to open a private hall after obtaining a licence to do so. [3] One such was Charsley's Hall. [4]

The Oxford University Act 1854 is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, which regulates corporate governance at the University of Oxford, England. It established the Hebdomadal Council, the leading body in the university's administration, stating that most members of full-time academic staff were to have voting rights over it. In the year 2000, the Hebdomadal Council was replaced by the University Council, which is responsible to the Congregation of staff members.

Charsleys Hall Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford

Charsley's Hall was a private hall of the University of Oxford. After 1891 it was renamed as Marcon's Hall.

The Universities Tests Act 1871 opened all university degrees and positions to men who were not members of the Church of England (subject to safeguards for religious instruction and worship), which made it possible for Catholics and Non-conformists to open private halls. The first Catholic private halls were Clarke's Hall (now Campion Hall), opened by the Jesuit Order in 1896 and Hunter Blair's Hall (now St Benet's Hall) opened by the Benedictine Order in 1899. [5] [6]

The Universities Tests Act 1871 in the United Kingdom abolished religious "Tests" and allowed Roman Catholics, non-conformists and non-Christians to take up professorships, fellowships, studentships and other lay offices at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham. It also forbade religious tests for "any degree ".

Church of England Anglican state church of England

The Church of England is the established church of England. The Archbishop of Canterbury is the most senior cleric, although the monarch is the supreme governor. The Church of England is also the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain by the third century, and to the 6th-century Gregorian mission to Kent led by Augustine of Canterbury.

Campion Hall Permanent Private Hall

Campion Hall is one of the Permanent Private Halls of the University of Oxford in England. It is run by the Society of Jesus and named after St. Edmund Campion, a martyr and Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. The Hall is located on Brewer Street, between Christ Church and Pembroke College. The buildings, along with many of the fixtures and fittings, were designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, his only buildings in Oxford. The Hall also houses an extensive and important collection of religious art spanning 600 years; the pieces were collected primarily by Fr. Martin D'Arcy in the 1930s.

Permanent private halls

In 1918 the university passed a statute to allow private halls which were not run for profit to become permanent private halls and the two halls took their current names. [5]

In some cases, a PPH can be granted full collegiate status; recent examples include Mansfield College (became a full college in 1995) and Harris Manchester College (became a full college in 1996). However, one hall, Greyfriars (1224 — refounded 1910), closed at the end of the academic year 2007–08, as the Franciscan order which ran and funded it could no longer afford the expense. Greyfriars' students were transferred to Regent's Park College when it closed. [7]

Mansfield College, Oxford college of the University of Oxford

Mansfield College, Oxford is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. As of February 2018, the college comprises 231 undergraduates, 158 graduates, 34 visiting students and 67 fellows and academics.

Harris Manchester College, Oxford college of the University of Oxford

Harris Manchester College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Formerly known as Manchester College, it is listed in the University Statutes (V.1) as Manchester Academy and Harris College, and at university ceremonies it is called Collegium de Harris et Manchester. Located in Mansfield Road in central Oxford, Harris Manchester is one of very few mixed-sex higher education colleges in the UK whose undergraduate places are exclusively for students aged 21 years or over. The Principal of the college is the historian Prof Jane Shaw.

Greyfriars, Oxford Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford

Greyfriars, situated on the Iffley Road in East Oxford, was one of the smallest constituent Halls of the University of Oxford in England, and existed until 2008. Its status as a Permanent Private Hall (PPH) referred to the fact that it was governed by an outside institution, rather than by its fellows as is a College.

Permanent Private Halls of the University of Oxford

NameFoundedPPH status sinceAffiliationUndergraduatesGraduatesVisiting studentsTotal studentsUndergraduate degree subjects
Blackfriars Hall
(website)		1221; refounded 19211994 Roman Catholic (Dominican)439952PPE, Philosophy and Theology, Theology
Campion Hall
(website)		18961918 Roman Catholic (Jesuit)0909-
Regent's Park College
(website)		18101957 Baptist Union of Great Britain 1157016201Classical Archaeology and Ancient History, Classics, Classics and English, English, Geography, History, History and Politics, Law, Philosophy and Theology, PPE, Theology
St Benet's Hall
(website)		18971918 Roman Catholic (Benedictine)474051Classics, Classics and Oriental Studies, History, History and Politics, Oriental Studies, PPE, Philosophy and Theology, Theology
St Stephen's House
(website)		18762003 Church of England (Anglo-Catholic)2446070Theology
Wycliffe Hall
(website)		18771996 Church of England (evangelical)772755159Philosophy and Theology, Theology

Former Permanent Private Halls

NameFoundedPPH status fromAffiliationCurrent Status
St Peter's College 19291929 Church of England Became a new foundation 1947, full college 1961
Mansfield College 18861955 Nonconformist Became a full college 1995
Harris Manchester 18891990 Nonconformist Became a full college 1996
Greyfriars 1224 — refounded 19101957 Roman Catholic (Franciscan)Closed 2008

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References

  1. ↑ "Permanent Private Halls | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
  2. ↑ http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate_courses/colleges/pphs.html
  3. ↑ Statuta Universitatis Oxoniensis [Oxford University Statutes] (in Latin). University of Oxford. 1876. pp. 275–279. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  4. ↑ William Geddie, Chambers's Encyclopaedia , Volume 7 (1874), p. 174: "To these may be added Charsley's Hall, being a private hall under the mastership of WH Charsley, in virtue of a statute passed in 1854..."
  5. 1 2 "Victoria County History". british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  6. ↑ "Victoria County History". british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  7. ↑ Macleod, Donald. "Oxford religious hall closes down". the Guardian. Retrieved 2015-09-20.
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