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=== New Quadrangle === [[File:Hertford College Oxford - The Octagon - geograph.org.uk - 812852.jpg|thumb|150px|The New Buildings Gatehouse and the Octagon as seen from inside the quad. The Clarendon Building can be seen in the background.]] The New Quadrangle (known as New Quad or NB Quad, for New Buildings) is connected to the Old Quadrangle, across New College Lane, by the Bridge of Sighs, which was designed by Thomas Graham Jackson. The north-western corner of New Quad is taken up by the [[Indian Institute]] building, which is not part of Hertford College. Most of the New Buildings are early 20th-century designs by Jackson, except the slightly later frontage onto Holywell Street by [[Thomas Harold Hughes|T. H. Hughes]], on the northern side of the quad.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Whyte |first1=William |title=Unbuilt Hertford: T. G. Jackson's Contextual Dilemmas |journal=Architectural History |date=2002 |volume=45 |pages=347β362 |doi=10.2307/1568788 |jstor=1568788 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1568788 |access-date=17 January 2022}}</ref> The quad is entered through a gate onto Catte Street, just opposite the [[Clarendon Building]]. New Quad is mostly used for undergraduate accommodation.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/living-here/accommodation/undergraduate-accommodation | title=Undergraduate accommodation | publisher=Hertford College, Oxford | location=UK | access-date=11 January 2023 }}</ref> The most significant building in the quad is the Octagon, just north of the gate on Catte Street, which houses the [[Common Room (university)|Middle Common Room]]. It is the 16th-century [[Chapel of St Mary the Virgin at Smithgate]], which formed a bastion in the town walls. An original carving of the scene of the [[Annunciation]] can be seen from Catte Street, just beside the gate.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://catholicoxford.blogspot.com/2006/06/hertford-college.html | title=Hertford College | work=Catholic Oxford | publisher=[[Blogspot]] | access-date=11 January 2023 }}</ref>
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