Editing St Catherine's College, Oxford (section)

===College name===
In 1931, the delegacy officially acquired the name, "St Catherine's Society", with the current spelling. Variations of ''St Catharine'' having been used by the students for their sporting teams and various clubs since the 1870s, the name was already strongly associated with the delegacy. First forming a social club in April 1869, the students called it the "Clarendon University Club", taking that name from the Old Clarendon Building where the delegacy had been allocated a room. The students soon expanded their organised activities. By 1874 they began a more comprehensive association, which they called the St {{sic|Catharine's}} Club, after its headquarters, the hall where they dined and held meetings.<ref name="Hibbert college">{{cite encyclopedia|author-link= Christopher Hibbert |last1=Hibbert |first1=Christopher |encyclopedia=The Encyclopaedia of Oxford |date=1988 |publisher=Macmillan |location=London |isbn=978-0-333-39917-0 |pages=379−382 |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediaofo0000hibb/page/380/mode/2up |title=St Catherine's College}}</ref> St Catharine's Hall had long been associated with the saint, having been built {{circa|1520}} as a chapel, popularly called St Catherine's Chapel, (though officially "Chapel of Our Lady at Smith Gate").<ref>{{cite web |title=Official list entry 1369642: Hertford College, Chapel of Mary at Smith's Gate |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1369642?section=official-list-entry |website= Historic England |language=en}}; {{cite web |title=Hertford College, Chapel of Mary at Smith's Gate |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1369642 |website=Historic England |language=en |quote=Non-Civil Parish - 1369642}}</ref><ref name="ox encyc">{{cite encyclopedia |editor1-last=Salter |editor1-first=H E |editor2-last=Lobel |editor2-first=Mary D |via=British History Online |title=St. Catherine's Society |date=1954 |location=London |publisher=Victoria County History |pages=338–339 |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol3/pp338-339 |access-date=14 March 2023 |encyclopedia=A History of the County of Oxford |volume=3: The University of Oxford|editor1-link=Herbert Edward Salter|editor2-link=Mary Lobel}}</ref> Although deconsecrated, the 16th-century appellation of "St Catharine's" remained attached to the site throughout its later history.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Smith Gate and its Chapel |url=http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/city_wall/04_smith_gate.html |website=Oxford History: Oxford City Wall |access-date=16 March 2023 |author1=Stephanie Jenkins}}</ref> The building's address at the time of the Club's tenancy was 29 [[Broad Street, Oxford|Broad Street]]; it fronted, though, onto [[Catte Street]], also known as Catherine Street from some point in the late 19th century until 1930—and first recorded as Kattestreete {{circa|1210}}, ''Catte'' in 1402, ''Cate'' or ''Kate'' in the 17th century, and ''Cat'' or ''Catte'' again in the 1800s, the street's name enhancing the association with ''Catherine''.<ref name="Hibbert catte">{{cite encyclopedia|author-link= Christopher Hibbert |last1=Hibbert |first1=Christopher |encyclopedia=The Encyclopaedia of Oxford |date=1988 |publisher=Macmillan |location=London |isbn=978-0-333-39917-0 |page=72 |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediaofo0000hibb/page/72/mode/2up |title=Catte Street}}</ref>

In this way, the college became indirectly associated with the saint, [[Catherine of Alexandria]]. Despite the initially accidental relationship, St Catherine is celebrated as the college's patron saint "with a special Catz Night dinner{{nbsp}}... at the end of which a giant Catherine wheel is lit in the quad".<ref name="brief"/> Other elements of this can be seen in the college [[blazon]], which depicts four [[Breaking wheel|Catherine wheels]], one of St Catherine's attributes. While religious iconography can also be seen today in some of the college's symbols, the college's origins were largely secular.<ref>{{cite web|author1=Stephanie Jenkins |url=http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/broad/buildings/east/hertford/29.html |title=Broad Street, Oxford: No. 29 — Former Octagonal Chapel|website=Oxford History: Broad Street |access-date=19 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | website=Oxford History: The High |url=http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/high/tour/north/catte.html |date=8 September 2021|author1=Stephanie Jenkins |title=Catte Street, Oxford }}</ref>