Editing Mansfield College, Oxford (section)

=== Nonconformist roots ===
Since the college was first formally integrated into the university structure in 1955, its Nonconformist aspects have gradually diminished. Until 2007 Mansfield trained [[United Reformed Church]] (URC) ordinands, who became fully matriculated members of the university and received degrees.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.urc.org.uk/news/2009/june/mansfield_college|title=The last URC minister to qualify through Mansfield College|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110226114921/http://www.urc.org.uk/news/2009/june/mansfield_college|archive-date=26 February 2011}}</ref>

The Nonconformist history of the college is however still apparent in a few of its features. A portrait of [[Oliver Cromwell]] hangs in the Senior Common Room and portraits of the [[English Dissenters|dissenters of 1662]] hang in the library and the corridors of the main college building, together with portraits of [[William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele|Viscount Saye and Sele]], [[John Hampden]], [[Thomas Jollie]] and [[Hugh Peters]].
The college chapel is unconsecrated, and contains stained glass windows and statues depicting leading figures from Nonconformist movements, including Cromwell, [[Sir Henry Vane the Younger|Sir Henry Vane]] and [[William Penn]].<ref name=building/> Chapel services are still conducted in a Nonconformist tradition. Over the years attendance at chapel services has declined and the make-up of the general student body no longer reflects the Nonconformist religious origins of the college.{{fact|date=March 2021}}