Editing All Souls College, Oxford (section)

===All Souls College Library===
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[[File:UK-2014-Oxford-All Souls College 02.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|left|All Souls College Library, showing Wren's sundial over the central door]]
The All Souls College Library (formerly known as the Codrington Library) was founded through a 1710 bequest from [[Christopher Codrington]] (1668–1710), a fellow of the college and a wealthy slave and sugar plantation owner. Codrington was an undergraduate at Oxford and later became colonial governor of the [[Leeward Islands]]. Christopher Codrington was born in Barbados, and amassed a fortune from [[Plantation economy|his sugar plantation in the West Indies]].<ref>James Walvin (17 February 2011), [https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/building_britain_gallery_06.shtml "Slavery and the Building of Britain"], British History, [[BBC]].</ref> 

Under the terms of his will Codrington bequeathed books worth £6,000 to the college in addition to £10,000 in currency for the library to be rebuilt and endowed. The new library was completed in 1751 to the designs of [[Nicholas Hawksmoor]] and has been in continuous use since then. Today the library comprises some 185,000 items, about a third of which were published before 1800. The collections are particularly strong in law and history (especially military history).<ref>{{cite news|title=Codrington Library|work=all-souls.ac.uk}}</ref>

Sir [[Christopher Wren]] was a fellow from 1653. The design of the sundial, produced in 1658 for the south wall of the Chapel, is attributed to Wren. The sundial  was moved to the quadrangle (above the central entrance to the Library) in 1877.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Architecture of the College {{!}} All Souls College |url=https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/architecture-college |access-date=2024-01-22 |website=www.asc.ox.ac.uk}}</ref>

In 2020, the College decided to cease referring to the Library as 'The Codrington Library' as part of a set of "steps to address the problematic nature of the Codrington legacy", which comes from wealth derived from slave plantations.<ref>All Souls College Library, ''Library History[https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/library-history#2000]''</ref>

[[File:All Souls College Towers.jpg|thumb|The double towers of All Souls College, Oxford]]