St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, Front Quad.

St. Edmund Hall is named after St. Edmund of Abingdon who was an Archbishop of Canterbury in the 13th century. He is said to have lived and taught in a house at the western end of the present front quadrangle when he was a Regent Master in the Arts. St Edmund Hall was made a College of the University in 1957 but its history goes back to the thirteenth century, for it is the sole survivor of the medieval Halls that provided undergraduates with accommodation and tuition before the Colleges began to do so.
The main entrance to the college from Queen’s Lane leads through a passage in a part of the building that dates from 1635. This includes the Porter's Lodge and the part of the Principal's Lodgings built by Adam Airey. The west end of the Principal's Lodgings was built in 1826, and the adjacent rooms were added a hundred years later. Until 1934 the remainder of the south side was a shrubbery. That year saw the completion of the existing south range and that event marked the seven hundredth anniversary of St. Edmund’s consecration as Archbishop of Canterbury. The architect was R. Fielding Dodd.