Editing Merton College, Oxford (section)

===St Alban Hall===
{{Main|St Alban Hall, Oxford}}
[[File:St Alban Hall.jpg|thumb|right|St Alban Hall, pictured in 1837, engraving by John Le Keux from a drawing by F. Mackenzie]]

St Alban Hall was an independent [[academic halls of the University of Oxford|academic hall]] owned by the convent of [[Littlemore]] until it was purchased by Merton College in 1548 following the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries|dissolution of the convent]]. It continued as a separate institution until it was finally annexed by the college in 1881, on the resignation of its last principal, [[William Charles Salter]].<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/aboutmerton/library4.shtml|title= St Alban Hall, Library & Archives, Merton College website|access-date= 20 July 2009|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101029190910/http://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/aboutmerton/library4.shtml|archive-date= 29 October 2010|url-status= dead}}</ref>