St John’s College
St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Opening hours: 1:00 PM—5:00 PM
- Type: University
- Description: college of the University of Oxford
- Also known as: “Saint John’s College”, “St John’s College, Oxford”, and “St. John’s College”
- Address: St Giles‘, OX1 3JP
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Oxford University Museum of Natural History and Balliol College.
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Museum
Photo: MykReeve, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History is a museum displaying many of the University of Oxford's natural history specimens, located on Parks Road in Oxford, England. Oxford University Museum of Natural History is situated 680 feet northeast of St John’s College.
Balliol College
University
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Balliol College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, England. Founded in 1263 by nobleman John I de Balliol, it has a claim to be the oldest college in Oxford and the English-speaking world. Balliol College is situated 820 feet south of St John’s College.
Trinity College
University
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Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1555 by Sir Thomas Pope, on land previously occupied by Durham College, home to Benedictine monks from Durham Cathedral. Trinity College is situated 690 feet south of St John’s College.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oxford and Jericho.
Oxford
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Oxford is the oldest university city in the United Kingdom, some 50 miles to the west of the capital London in its own county of Oxfordshire, on the rivers Thames and Cherwell.
Jericho
Suburb
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Jericho is a historic suburb of the English city of Oxford. It consists of the streets bounded by the Oxford Canal, Worcester College, Walton Street and Walton Well Road.
Norham Manor
Quarter
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The Norham Manor estate is a residential suburb in Oxford, England. It is part of central North Oxford. To the north is Park Town with its crescents, to the east is the River Cherwell, to the south are the University Parks and to the west is Walton Manor, on the other side of Banbury Road.
St John’s College
- Categories: college of the University of Oxford, building complex, and education
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.75719° or 51° 45′ 26″ northLongitude
-1.25763° or 1° 15′ 28″ westInception
1555Open location code
9C3WQP4R+VWOpenStreetMap ID
way 292047265OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=universityOpenStreetMap feature
landuse=educationWikidata ID
Q609646
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“St John’s College” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كلية سانت جون، أوكسفورد”
- Armenian: “Սենթ Ջոնս քոլեջ”
- Armenian: “Սուրբ Հովհաննեսի քոլեջ”
- Belarusian: “Каледж Святога Іаана”
- Belarusian: “Коледж сьвятога Яна”
- Belarusian: “Сент-Джонс каледж”
- Catalan: “Saint John’s College”
- Chinese: “牛津大學聖約翰學院”
- Chinese: “聖約翰學院”
- Czech: “Kolej sv. Jana”
- Dutch: “St John’s College”
- Esperanto: “Kolegio Sankta Johano”
- Esperanto: “St John’s College”
- Finnish: “St John’s College”
- French: “Saint John’s College (Oxford)”
- French: “St John’s College (Oxford)”
- French: “St John’s College”
- Galician: “St John’s College”
- Georgian: “სენტ-ჯონის კოლეჯი”
- German: “St John’s College, Oxford”
- German: “St John’s College”
- Greek: “Κολλέγιο Σαιντ Τζωνς”
- Hebrew: “סנט ג’ונס קולג‘, אוקספורד”
- Indonesian: “St John’s College, Oxford”
- Irish: “Coláiste Eoin, Oxford”
- Italian: “St John’s College”
- Japanese: “セント・ジョンズ・カレッジ (オックスフォード大学)”
- Japanese: “セント・ジョンズ・カレッジ (ケンブリッジ大学”
- Japanese: “セント・ジョンズ・カレッジ”
- Kurdish: “Koleja St John a Oksfordê”
- Malay: “Kolej St John, Oxford”
- Malay: “Kolej St John”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “St John’s College”
- Polish: “St John’s College w Oksfordzie”
- Portuguese: “St John’s College”
- Russian: “St John’s College, Oxford”
- Russian: “Колледж Святого Иоанна”
- Russian: “Сент-Джонс колледж”
- Russian: “Сент-Джонс-колледж”
- Slovenian: “St John’s College”
- South Azerbaijani: “سنت جان، آکسفورد کالجی”
- Spanish: “Saint John’s College”
- Spanish: “St John’s College Oxford”
- Spanish: “St John’s College”
- Swedish: “St John’s College, Oxford”
- Tatar: “Изге Ибан көллияте”
- Turkish: “St. John’s Kolej, Oxford”
- Ukrainian: “Коледж святого Івана”
- Ukrainian: “Колледж Святого Іоанна”
- Urdu: “سینٹ جان کالج، اوکسفرڈ”
- Welsh: “Coleg Sant Ioan, Rhydychen”
- Welsh: “Coleg Sant Ioan”
- Western Panjabi: “سینٹ جان کالج، آکسفورڈ”
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