Editing St Antony's College, Oxford (section)

==Buildings and grounds==
===Main building===
[[File:St Antony's College Library.JPG|thumb|upright|The college library in the Old Main building.]]
The college's main building was built in the early Victorian era for the [[Society of the Holy and Undivided Trinity]] at the behest of Marian Rebecca Hughes, the first woman to take monastic vows within the Church of England since the reformation. The order commissioned [[Charles Buckeridge]], a local architect of some renown, to design the convent buildings. After initially proposing a circular design based on the symbolism of the holy trinity, Buckeridge took to a more traditional approach and drew up the plans for what is now St Antony's main building some time before 1865. Whilst initially there were plans to enlarge the convent with a northerly extension, for which place was made in the building's design, further building never took place. The convent finally opened in November 1868.{{fact|date=March 2021}}

The total cost of the initial build was eight thousand pounds, a considerable sum at that time. It is said that upon first seeing the convent's new premises, the architect [[William Butterfield]] commented that it was the 'best modern building in Oxford after my college', by which he meant Keble. St Antony's acquired the former convent in 1950 after it had been vacated by the convent and [[Halifax House]], which had occupied the premises in the immediate post war period. The building's chapel, which was never consecrated and now houses the college library, was built in the years 1891–1894 to Buckeridge's original design. The three panel paintings round the apse of the former chapel are by [[Charles Edgar Buckeridge]].<ref name=Saint >{{Cite journal|last=Saint|first=Andrew|date=1973|title=Charles Buckeridge and his family |url=http://oxoniensia.org/volumes/1973/saint.pdf |journal=Oxoniensia|volume=38|pages=357–372}}</ref> The main building's undercroft, now the Gulbenkian Reading Room, was initially used by the nuns as a refectory, a role it continued to play until the completion of the Hilda Besse building in 1970.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/about/images/HistoryofBuildingsSite.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-05-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218183509/http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/about/images/HistoryofBuildingsSite.pdf |archive-date=18 December 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

===1960s: The Hilda Besse Building===
[[File:St Antonys Dining Hall - Fall 2023.jpg|thumb|The college dining hall during a formal]]
After a number of ambitious schemes, one of which had been designed by [[Oscar Niemeyer]], to enlarge the college in the 1960s fell through due to lack of funds, the college decided to concentrate its efforts in providing for the construction of a small extension and acquisition of neighbouring properties. The Hilda Besse Building (then known as New Building) was opened in 1970; this building still serves its original purpose in housing the college's dining hall, graduate common room, and buttery (college bar), as well as ancillary meeting rooms. The next major expansion of the college came in 1993 with the completion of a new building to house the [[Nissan Institute for Japanese Studies]] and the Bodleian Japanese Library, whilst additional accommodation was not supplied until the Founder's Building was opened to mark the millennium in the year 2000.{{fact|date=March 2021}} The Wahba Dining Hall, the main dining hall for the college located on the first floor of the Hilda Besse Building, was also used as a filming location for ''[[The Amateur (2025 film)|The Amateur]]'', a 2025 spy film starring [[Rami Malek]].

===2000s: The Gateway Buildings===
In the early 21st century not much development took place until completion of the college's new Gateway Buildings in 2013, which provide a new main entrance to the college and form the east, and final, side of the college's first quadrangle.<ref name="Gateway Buildings">{{cite web|url=https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/alumni-and-development/support-st-antonys/gateway-campaign |title=The Gateway Campaign |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=St Antony's College, Oxford |access-date=17 February 2020}}</ref> The funding for this was gained in part by [[Foulath Hadid]] who, for his outstanding services to the college, was elected to an Honorary Fellowship in 2004, and the Hadid Room, the college's meeting room, was named in his honour.<ref name=Obit>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/foulath-hadid-writer-and-expert-on-arab-affairs-8207992.html Obituary - 'Foulath Hadid: Writer and expert on Arab affairs']  - ''[[The Independent]]'' 11 October 2012</ref>

===The Investcorp Building===
[[File:Investcorp Building.jpg|thumb|The Investcorp Building was one of Zaha Hadid's last completed projects before her death in 2016.]]
As part of its ongoing development programme, St Antony's commissioned the construction of a new centre for Middle Eastern Studies. The Middle East Centre, or Investcorp Building, was designed by the Iraqi-British architect [[Zaha Hadid]]; it broke ground on 30 January 2013<ref name="Middle East Centre">{{cite web|url=http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/10195791.Work_starts_on_futuristic_Oxford_University_building/|title=Work starts on futuristic Oxford University building|work=[[The Oxford Times]]|date=2013-01-31|access-date=2015-07-20}}</ref> and was opened as the Investcorp Building on 26 May 2015.<ref>{{cite news|title=Zaha Hadid's Middle East Centre lands in Oxford|author-link=Jonathan Glancey|first=Jonathan|last=Glancey|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/architecture/11670659/zaha-hadid-investcorp-building-oxford.html|work=[[The Sunday Telegraph]]|location=London|date=2015-06-14|access-date=2015-07-20}}</ref><ref name=theindependent>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/architecture/zaha-hadid-s-modernist-library-inspires-shock-and-awe-in-oxford-10277247.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/architecture/zaha-hadid-s-modernist-library-inspires-shock-and-awe-in-oxford-10277247.html |archive-date=24 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|author=Jay Merrick|title=Zaha Hadid's modernist library inspires shock and awe in Oxford|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|date=26 May 2015|access-date=23 October 2017}}</ref> [[The Guardian (newspaper)|The Guardian]] described it as a "writhing metallic slug that does its best to maul the two historic buildings between which its contorted body is slung".<ref name="Guardian_2016">{{cite news |last1=Wainwright |first1=Oliver |title=RIBA awards 2016: academic buildings dominate list of UK's best architecture |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jun/23/riba-awards-2016-motorway-service-station-among-uks-best-buildings |access-date=22 January 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=23 June 2016}}</ref> It was awarded the [[List of winners of the Sir Hugh Casson Award|Sir Hugh Casson Award]] in 2015 for the worst new building of the year.<ref name="Guardian_2016"/>