Editing Blackfriars, Oxford (section)

== History ==
The [[Order of Preachers|Dominicans]] arrived in Oxford on 15 August 1221, at the instruction of a General Chapter meeting headed by [[Saint Dominic]] himself,<ref name="hibbert"/> little more than a week after the friar's death. As such, the hall is heir to the oldest tradition of teaching in Oxford, a tradition that precedes both the [[aularian]] houses of the next century and the [[Colleges of the University of Oxford|collegiate houses]] of the rest of the [[History of the University of Oxford|University of Oxford's history]]. In 1236 they established a new and extensive priory in the [[St. Ebbes]] district.<ref>{{cite book|first=Malcolm|last=Graham|title=On Foot from Carfax to Turn Again|series=Oxford Heritage Walks, 5|publisher=Oxford Preservation Trust|year=2019|isbn=978-0-9576797-6-4}}</ref>

Like all the monastic houses in Oxford, Blackfriars came into rapid and repeated conflict with the university authorities. With the [[English Reformation|Reformation]], all monastic houses, including Blackfriars, were [[Dissolution of the Monasteries|suppressed]]. The Dominicans did not return to Oxford for some 400 years, until 1921 when Blackfriars was refounded by [[Bede Jarrett]] as a religious house.<ref name=delany>{{cite journal|last1=Delany|first1=Bernard|title=Father Bede Jarrett, O.P.|journal=Blackfriars|date=May 1934|volume=15|issue=170|pages=303–312|doi=10.1111/j.1741-2005.1934.tb04225.x|doi-access=free}}</ref> The original priory building was designed by [[Edward Doran Webb]] and completed in 1929.<ref name="hibbert">{{cite book|title=[[The Encyclopaedia of Oxford]] | chapter=Blackfriars, the Priory of the Holy Spirit |year=1988|pages=43–44}}</ref> The Dominican studium at Blackfriars had a close relationship with the university, culminating in the establishment of Blackfriars as a permanent private hall in 1994.<ref>{{cite book |last=Brockliss |first=Laurence |author-link= |date=24 March 2016 |title=The University of Oxford: A History |url= |location= |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |page=560 |isbn=978-0199243563}}</ref>