St John’s College was founded as a men’s college in 1555, it has been coeducational since 1979. Its founder, Sir Thomas White, intended to provide a source of educated Roman Catholic clerics to support the Counter-Reformation under Queen Mary.
St John’s is the wealthiest college in Oxford, with assets worth over £790 million as of 2022, largely due to nineteenth-century suburban development of land in the city of Oxford of which it is the ground landlord.
The Beehive North Quad: the entrance elevation.
Architects 1960 Co-Partnership
Reginald Hugo de Burgh Galwey 1960
The Beehive North Quad: seen from the archway on the western side.
Bill Toomey 1960
The Garden Quadrangle.
Architect 1994 MacCormac Jamieson Prichard – MJP.
Detail of spiral stair.
The entrance courtyard.
A study bedroom at topmost level.
The lecture theatre.
Charles Martin 1994
Sir Thomas White Building.
Architects 1972-75 Philip Dowson of Arup Associates.
The pavilion looking through to the dining room.
A study bedroom.
The roof scape and service tower.
John Donat 1975
See also: St Catherine’s College, Materials Science, Worcester College, Keble College and The Florey Building
Modern Mooch 