Editing Regent's Park College, Oxford (section)

==Buildings==
[[File:Regent’s Park College.jpg|thumb|left|280px|Regent's Park College (Pusey Street)]]
[[File:Springquad.JPG|thumb|left|280px|The Quad in Spring]]
Regent's Park College is located just off [[St Giles', Oxford|St Giles']] in the heart of Oxford, near [[St Cross College, Oxford|St Cross College]] and [[St John's College, Oxford|St John's College]]. The site is based around a large [[neoclassical architecture|neoclassical]] quadrangle (as seen in the adjacent picture). The quadrangle is well known for the extensive Virginia creeper which covers most of the buildings. On the south side of the quad are the college entrance and lodge. On the west side is the Hall, with two Ionic columns flanking the main entrance to the room. The names "Thomas Helwys" and "William Carey" are carved on either side of the glass door leading into the Hall. [[Thomas Helwys]] was a religious refugee in Holland and returned to England to start the first Baptist church. [[William Carey (missionary)|William Carey]] was a missionary to India and inspired the foundation of the Baptist Missionary Society in 1792.<ref>William Carey Society, 2010</ref>

The college also owns seventeenth- and eighteenth-century houses which face out onto [[St Giles', Oxford|St. Giles']] as well as more recent developments, such as Wheeler Robinson House, which is used for third-year accommodation, and Gould House and Angus House, both of which are used either for undergraduates or tutors. All undergraduate accommodation is on-site, or less than a three-minute walk away from the main college buildings. The college also makes use of some central University accommodation provisions for postgraduates, notably the [[Castle Mill]] development in North Oxford and some houses in [[Wellington Square, Oxford|Wellington Square]]. {{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

===Helwys Hall===

Helwys Hall is home to a series of portraits which, taken together, present a brief history of the college. Most of the former principals' portraits are displayed including a recent portrait of Professor [[Paul Fiddes]] and Dr. [[Robert Ellis (theologian)|Robert Ellis]]. There are also portraits of [[Joshua Marshman]], [[Hannah Marshman]], [[William Carey (missionary)|William Carey]], and [[William Ward (missionary)|Willam Ward]] who were all missionaries to India and [[Andrew Fuller]] who was a missionary and first secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society. Helwys Hall was completely renovated in 2009 with a gift to the college's Annual Fund from an anonymous donor.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

===Common Rooms===
'''The Junior Common Room''' 

The JCR is adorned with pictures of Regent's sports teams. The room also has a JCR presidents' board with the name of every JCR president until Rosie Marie Walsh (2021) and a board recording all Regent's students who have received a [[Oxford Blue|Blue]] from the university. 

'''The Middle Common Room''' 

The MCR is the college's Postgraduate community. Hosting a variety of Ministerial, Mature Undergraduate, Master's, Doctoral and Part-time Students.

'''The Senior Common Room''' 

The SCR, which is used by academic and administrative staff, was provided by a gift from the nieces and nephews of George Pearce Gould (principal 1896–1920). A portrait of Gould hangs over an Adams brothers' mantelpiece. Facing Gould is a portrait of [[William Kiffin]] which dates back to 1667.<ref>Kreitzer and Rooke, 2006</ref>

===Libraries===
====The College Library====
The College Library is on the third floor of the college above Helwys Hall and houses many key works relating to theology, as well as many works on history, geography and politics. It contains graduate study rooms as well as a number of computers.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

In the library, there is a semi-circular window with sixteen panels, on which is etched a map of the world with many interesting symbols and emblems. The window came from the Glasgow Empire Exhibition of 1937 and is a fine example of modern glasswork. The library contains portraits of both William Carey and [[John Bunyan]], and outside it hangs a portrait of [[Henry Havelock]].{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

====Angus Library and Archive====
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The Angus Library and Archive is a scholarship library holding volumes and documents on Baptist history and culture. The core of the collection was left to the college by Joseph Angus who was principal from 1849 to 1893. The Angus now comprises over 70,000 printed books, pamphlets, journals, church and association records, church histories, manuscript letters and other artefacts from the late fifteenth century to the present day. The collection relates to the life and history of Baptists in Britain and the wider world. There is a considerable amount of material from non-Baptist sources relating to issues and controversies in which Baptists were involved.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

The Angus Library and Archive are used by scholars researching Baptist history, the history of dissent in the UK, and the social history of foreign missions and linguistics. It is also used by members of the public to research family and local history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rpc.ox.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=19&tln=ResourceCentres |title=Regent's Park College &#124; Regent's Park College |website=Rpc.ox.ac.uk |date=12 March 2017 |access-date=28 March 2017}}</ref>