Somerville College Chapel
Somerville College Chapel is the chapel of Somerville College, Oxford. The chapel is unique among Oxford colleges because it has no religious affiliation - reflecting the non-sectarian foundation of the college as place for the higher education of women.Photo: Brigade Piron, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: nondenominational
- Description: church in England
- Also known as: “Chapel”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Somerville College and Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
Somerville College
University
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Somerville College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges.
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 1,500 feet east of Somerville College Chapel.
Green Templeton College
University
Green Templeton College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The college is located on the former Green College site on Woodstock Road next to the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter in North Oxford and is centred on the architecturally important Radcliffe Observatory, an 18th-century building, modelled on the ancient Tower of the Winds in Athens. Green Templeton College is situated 930 feet north of Somerville College Chapel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jericho and Norham Manor.
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
Photo: Jpbowen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Oxford
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Somerville College Chapel
- Categories: chapel, building, place of worship, university building, and religion
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.75875° or 51° 45′ 32″ northLongitude
-1.26245° or 1° 15′ 45″ westOperator
Somerville CollegeOpen location code
9C3WQP5Q+F2OpenStreetMap ID
way 97853784OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=universityOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=nondenominationalWikidata ID
Q52217605
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In Other Languages
“Somerville College Chapel” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Somerville College Chapel”
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Highlights include Chapel Quad and Fellows Garden.
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