Oxford 1863 directory index
Directory of Pubs in the UK, historical public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in Oxfordshire. The Oxfordshire listing uses information from census, Trade Directories and History to add licensees, bar staff, Lodgers and Visitors.
The following entries are in this format:
Year/Publican or other Resident/Relationship to Head and or Occupation/Age/Where Born/Source.
Oxford Halls.
We now come to the Halls which, as before stated, are five in number, and
governed by a principal.
St. Alban's Hall, Merton Street, is the most ancient, deriving its name from
Robert de St. Alban, a citizen of Oxford, during the reign of King John. In
the time of Henry the VI. it was united to Nunne Hall. Henry VIII. granted
both halls in conjunction to his physician.
St. Edmund's Hall, High Street, is ascribed to Edmund le Riche, of Abingdon,
created Archbishop of Canterbury, in the reign of Henry III. At the
dissolution it belonged to "Ouseney Priory," but is now the property of
Queen's College. The buildings have been much enlarged and improved during
the two last centuries; its library, begun in 1680, is rich in valuable
books and manuscripts.
New Inn Hall, formerly Trilleck's Inn, founded in 1460, by William of
Wykeham, was originally inhabited by Bernardine monks. It is situate on the
place formerly called the " Seven Deadly Sins," and for many years had only
one member, the principal. During the civil war (1642) it was used as a mint
by Charles I., who here melted down the plate presented to him by the
University and Halls.
St. Mart's Hall, Oriel Street, anciently the parsonage house of St. Mary's
Church, until 1325, when Edward II. gave it to the Society of Oriel College,
who made it academical in 1333. Its buildings consist of a quadrangle in the
Gothic style, on the west and east of which are the members' apartments; on
the south, the hall and chapel; and on the north, the principal's lodgings.
The chapel was erected in 1640 by several benefactors. There is a singular
epitaph on Dr. W. King, who was interred at Ealing, but his heart is
preserved in this chapel.
Magdalen Hall was built about 1353, and in 1480 was made a grammar school,
by William of Waynflete, founder of Magdalen College; subsequently it was
enlarged and placed on the same footing as other halls. It contains some
valuable paintings, among which is one of Tyndal the Martyr. In 1816, an Act
of Parliament authorized the Society to take possession of Hertford College;
new buildings were in consequence erected, and the Society removed here in
1822.
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