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Welcome to All Souls College. The College is primarily an academic research institution with particular strengths in the humanities and social and theoretical sciences and an outstanding library. It also has strong ties to public life.
- General
- Access Arrangements and Disabled Facilities
- Disabled Parking
- Disabled Toilet Facilities
The College welcomes disabled visitors and will do its best to assist them, although, unfortunately, not all parts of the College are accessible to wheelchair users or those with significant mobility problems. A wheelchair for visitors' use is available from the Lodge. Access via the main entrance involves two steps. Wheelchair users and others wit...
Old Library
Main access is via steep stairs but arrangements can be made for those with limited mobility to use a stairlift and a Fellow’s room to gain access. Those wishing to use this facility are asked to contact the Lodge by email(or by telephone on 01865 279379) at least 48 hours in advance of the lecture or event to confirm details so that this can be arranged.
Hovenden Room (Kitchen Quadrangle) and Seminar Rooms 1-3
Access involves several steps or stairs. Unfortunately they are therefore not suitable for wheelchair users or those with very limited mobility. Members of seminars and classes scheduled to be held in these rooms who might find it difficult to access them should contact either the organiser of the seminar or lecture or the Domestic Bursar as soon as possible so that the feasibility of using alternative venues within the College can be investigated.
Wharton Room
Access involves three steps but ramps can be put down on request. Arrangements can also be made for the gate on Catte Street to be opened where this would ease access for seminar participants. The Wharton Room is also fitted with an induction loop. Libraryaccess involves one step. A temporary ramp, with which College staff assistance will be required, is stored near the Catte Street entrance. Readers should contact the Library on 01865 279318.
The College has very limited parking facilities and a bus gate across the High Street immediately to the East of the main College entrance prevents through access by ordinary passenger vehicles from 7.00am to 6.30pm. Between these hours cars may approach from either the East or West but must not pass the barriers. Limited blue badge parking may be ...
Toilet facilities for wheelchair users are located off the Front Quadrangle in the passage by the Bursary. A second toilet for wheelchair users is available to Readers in the Library.
All Souls College (official name: College of the Souls of All the Faithful Departed) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows (i.e., full members of the college's governing body).
All Souls College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. It was founded by Henry VI and it has no undergraduate members. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows or members of the college’s governing body.
The College of All Souls of the Faithful Departed, of Oxford, was founded by Henry VI and Henry Chichele (fellow of New College and Archbishop of Canterbury), on 20 May 1438. Today the College is primarily an academic research institution at the University of Oxford, having strong ties to the public domain.
Contact details for All Souls College, University of Oxford. Degree Conferrals Team, Examination Schools, High Street, OXFORD, OX1 4BG, United Kingdom.
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All Souls College is one of the colleges of The University of Oxford. It sits next to the iconic Radcliffe Camera just off Oxford’s High Street. It’s a graduate-only college founded in 1438, known for its demanding entrance examination.
