Site and Buildings

The college is housed in a series of buildings surrounding a pleasant garden in leafy North Oxford. The Main Building, a former Anglican convent built in the 1860s, houses the main library, the Gulbenkian Reading Room, the Russian and East European Study Centre, the Computer Room and the administration of the college. Here you will find the College Lodge and the offices of all the main College Officers - the Warden, Bursar, College Registrar, Senior Tutor, Dean, Domestic Bursar and the Accountant. The Development Office is at the top of the building.

The Besse Building, built in 1970 and situated almost in the centre of the College site, includes the Dining Hall, the Common Rooms, the Buttery and other rooms for College Meetings and functions.

In 1993 a New Building was opened, containing a new Lecture Theatre as well as the Nissan Institute for Japanese Studies and the Bodleian Japanese Library.

The College's other properties, both within and beyond the curtilage, include the Area Studies Centres, student residences and the Warden's lodgings.

In 2000 the College opened a new building - the Founder's Building. This was the first and most important step taken by the College in recent years to increase its provision of seminar rooms, work-space and accommodation for its members. The building has 50 en-suite study rooms, 10 2-bedroom flats and 4/6 Seminar rooms, a music room and fitness suite.

St Antony's College Oxford - A History of its Buildings and Site [Word] [PDF]

Gateway Building