Keble College (University of Oxford) (Oxford)

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The College was founded in memory of John Keble (1792-1866. Keble College opened its doors to just thirty students in 1870, and the Chapel was opened on St Mark’s Day 1876.
The architect was William Butterfield, whose striking polychromatic brickwork, ‘the most approved “holy zebra” style’ in the eyes of its critics, served as a defiant assertion of a distinctively high church position. Butterfield’s architecture has been supplemented by the equally bold buildings (Hayward and de Breyne) by Ahrends, Burton and Koralek, opened in 1979, and by Rick Mather’s miracle of environmental soundness, the ARCO building, opened in July 1995. A new Mather building was completed in the summer of 2002. Originally intended for ‘gentlemen wishing to live economically’, the College began to admit women undergraduates from 1979 and elected its first female Warden in 1994.