St Mary’s College, which was recently unearthed by construction workers in Oxford, was not a victim of Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries, as was widely reported. Like so much of the long Reformation, its story is more complicated.
13 October 2022, The Tablet
Education – Reformation history and Oxford's lost college
Hammer beams from St Mary’s College were incorporated into the ceiling of Brasenose College Chapel in the seventeenth century.
PHOTO: ALAMY, JON BOWER
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