Editing St Peter's College, Oxford (section)

==History==
===Medieval halls===

Although founded in its current form in the 20th century, St Peter's occupies a central Oxford location on the site of two of the university's medieval halls. The first Master of St Peter's called the acquisition of the site "a chance of ages".<ref name="collegewebsitehistory" />

The site was originally the location of Trilleck's Inn, later known as [[New Inn Hall]], and Rose Hall. Trillecks' Inn was founded in the 14th century by [[John Trilleck|Bishop Trilleck]] and, as New Inn Hall, merged into [[Balliol College, Oxford|Balliol College]] in 1887. Rose Hall was given to [[New College, Oxford|New College]] by William of Wykeham. New College finally sold the site to the rector of St Peter-le-Bailey in 1859 and 1868 as a site for a new church, now the college chapel.<ref name="VCH3">{{cite work |title=St Peter's Hall |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol3/pp336-338 |volume=3 |work=A History of the County of Oxford |editor=H E Salter and Mary D Lobel |access-date=18 July 2021|year=1954}}</ref>

===St Peter's Hall===

The history of the college in its present form began in 1923 when [[Francis James Chavasse]], former [[Bishop of Liverpool]], returned to Oxford. He was concerned at the rising cost of education in the older universities in Britain, and projected St Peter's as a college where promising students, who might otherwise be deterred by the costs of college life, could obtain an Oxford education.<ref name="times">{{cite journal|last=Chavasse|first=Christopher|title=St Peter's Hall, Oxford|journal=The Times|date=8 November 1930|page=8|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/viewArticle.arc?articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1930-11-08-08-014&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1930-11-08-08|access-date=29 August 2013}}</ref> After Francis James died in 1928, his son [[Christopher Chavasse]] launched a memorial appeal in his father's name to fund the project, raising £150,000 from donors including Ella Rowcroft to convert and build new buildings on the site.<ref name="collegewebsitehistory">{{cite web |url=https://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/college-history |access-date=18 July 2021 |title=College History |website=St Peter's College, Oxford}}</ref> St Peter's was licensed by the [[University of Oxford|university]] as a hostel that year and opened with 13 residents.<ref name="times" /> The following year, 1929, it was recognised as a [[permanent private hall]] and grew to 40 students. A later significant benefactor was [[William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield]], who would also found [[Nuffield College]].<ref name="collegewebsitehistory" /> The hall was sometimes nicknamed "Pot Hall".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Balsdon |first1=John Percy Vyvian Dacre |author-link=J. P. V. D. Balsdon |title=Oxford Life |date=1958 |publisher=Eyre & Spottiswoode |page=49 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x6Dhytoy49EC}}</ref>

During the [[Second World War]], St Peter's Hall became home to evacuated students from [[Westfield College]], a [[women's college]] of the [[University of London]], and its students were boarded out to other colleges.<ref name="collegewebsitehistory" />

===St Peter's College===

In 1947, St Peter's was reclassified as a 'new foundation', and was finally recognised as a full college in 1961 with the granting of a [[royal charter]]. In 1979, St Peter's started admitting women and became [[co-educational]].<ref name="collegewebsitehistory" />