Editing St Benet's Hall, Oxford (section)

===Private hall of studies===
In October 1897, the priory had established a private hall of studies at Oxford for the purpose of enabling its monks to read for secular degrees at the [[University of Oxford]]. The hall was not founded as a theological college but rather as a place where student monks could read for a degree in any secular subject.

[[private halls of the University of Oxford|Private halls of study]] at the university took their name from their [[Master (college)|Master]], and so the hall was known successively as Hunter-Blair's Hall and Parker's Hall. It was initially housed at 103 [[Woodstock Road (Oxford)|Woodstock Road]]. This house is still in existence, opposite [[St Philip and St James Church, Oxford|SS Philip and James Church]], and is now a guest-house. The hall was there until 1904, when it moved to the former Grindle's Hall in [[Beaumont Street]], from which it removed in 1922 to the present buildings of 38 and 39 St Giles. The Beaumont Street houses were demolished in 1938 to make space for the [[Oxford Playhouse]] theatre.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}