Editing Keble College, Oxford

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{{Infobox residential college
| name = Keble College
| motto = Plain living and high thinking<ref name="Batson2008">{{cite book|first=Judy G.|last=Batson|title=Her Oxford|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_stU5CyTGKEC&pg=PA16|access-date=19 January 2013|publisher=Vanderbilt University Press|isbn=978-0-8265-1610-7|pages=16–|quote=plain living and high thinking|year=2008}}</ref>
| university = [[University of Oxford]]
| photo = [[File:Keble College Chapel - Oct 2006.jpg|290px]]
| scarf = {{scarf|{{cell|#003}}{{cell|#C03}}{{cell|#FFF}}{{cell|#C03}}{{cells|3|#003}}{{cell|#C03}}{{cell|#FFF}}{{cell|#C03}}{{cell|#003}}}}
| latin_name = Collegium Keblense
| named_for = [[John Keble]]
| architect = [[William Butterfield]]
| established = {{start date and age|1870}}
| sister_college = [[Selwyn College, Cambridge]]<br /> [[Benjamin Franklin College|Benjamin Franklin College, Yale]]
| warden = [[Michael Jacobs (physician)|Sir Michael Jacobs]]
| undergraduates = 460
| graduates = 525
| endowment = £50.3&nbsp;million <small>(2020)</small><ref name="keble">{{cite web|url=http://d307gmaoxpdmsg.cloudfront.net/collegeaccounts1920/Keble.pdf|title=Keble College : Annual Report and Financial Statements : Year ended 31 July 2020|website=ox.ac.uk|page=22|access-date=26 March 2021|archive-date=13 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221113140823/http://d307gmaoxpdmsg.cloudfront.net/collegeaccounts1920/Keble.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
| location = [[Parks Road]], [[Oxford]] OX1 3PG 
| coordinates = {{coord|51.758899|-1.257715|display=inline,title}}
| location_map = Oxford (central)
| shield = [[File:Coat of Arms of Keble College Oxford.svg|135px]]
| blazon = Argent, a chevron engrailed gules, on a chief azure, three mullets pierced or
| homepage = {{official URL}}
| JCR = {{URL|https://jcr.keble.ox.ac.uk}}
| MCR = {{URL|https://mcr.keble.ox.ac.uk}}
}}
'''Keble College''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|iː|b|əl}})<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/latin_name_and_english_pronuncia_2#incoming-2628767|title=Latin Name and English Pronunciation of Keble College |last=Monteith |first=Peter|website=[[WhatDoTheyKnow]] |publisher= |date=2024-04-19 |quote=the answer is /ˈkiːbəl/.}}</ref> is one of the [[Colleges of the University of Oxford|constituent colleges]] of the [[University of Oxford]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Keble College {{!}} University of Oxford |url=https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/colleges/college-listing/keble-college |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=www.ox.ac.uk}}</ref> in England. Its main buildings are on [[Parks Road]], opposite the [[Oxford University Museum of Natural History|University Museum]] and the [[Oxford University Parks|University Parks]]. The college is bordered to the north by [[Keble Road]], to the south by [[Museum Road]], and to the west by [[Blackhall Road]].

Keble was established in 1870, having been built as a monument to [[John Keble]], who had been a leading member of the [[Oxford Movement]] which sought to stress the [[Catholicity|Catholic]] nature of the [[Church of England]]. Consequently, the college's original teaching focus was primarily theological, although the college now offers a broad range of subjects, reflecting the diversity of degrees offered across the wider university. In the period after the Second World War, the trends were towards scientific courses (proximity to the university [[Science Area, Oxford|science area]] east of the University Museum influenced this). As originally constituted, it was for men only and the fellows were mostly bachelors resident in the college. Like many of Oxford's men's colleges, Keble admitted its first mixed-sex cohort in 1979.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Keble past and present|date=2008|publisher=Third Millennium|others=Archer, Ian W., Cameron, Averil.|isbn=9781903942710|location=London|oclc=232983257}}</ref>

Keble remains distinctive for its once-controversial<ref>In 1875, a writer in ''[[The Guardian (Anglican newspaper)|The Guardian]]'' dismissed Butterfield's Chapel as "fantastically picked out with zig-zag or checkerboard ornamentation", to which Butterfield responded stoutly in print, citing his East Anglian and Cotswold precedents: Paul Thompson, ''William Butterfield'', 1971, noted in a review by [[J. Mordaunt Crook]] in '' The English Historical Review'' 1974.</ref> neo-gothic red-brick buildings designed by [[William Butterfield]]. The buildings are also notable for breaking from [[Oxbridge]] tradition by arranging rooms along corridors rather than around staircases, in order that the [[bedder|scout]]s could supervise the comings and goings of visitors ([[Girton College, Cambridge]], similarly breaks this tradition).

Keble is one of the larger colleges of the University of Oxford, with 460 undergraduates and 525 graduate students as of 2022.<ref>{{cite web|title=Keble College |url=https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/colleges/keble-college|access-date= 6 November 2022 }}</ref> Keble's sister college at the [[University of Cambridge]] is [[Selwyn College, Cambridge|Selwyn College]].

==History==
[[File:Portrait of John Keble (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[John Keble]], a leading member of the [[Oxford Movement]], after whom the college is named]]
The best-known of Keble's [[Victorian era|Victorian]] founders was [[Edward Pusey]], after whom the Pusey quad and Pusey room are named.<ref name="Keble Tour"/> The college itself is named after [[John Keble]], one of Pusey's colleagues in the [[Oxford Movement]], who died four years before the college's foundation in 1870. It was decided immediately after Keble's funeral that his memorial would be a new Oxford college bearing his name. The chosen architect was [[William Butterfield]]. Two years later, in 1868, the foundation stone was laid by the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] on [[St Mark]]'s Day (25 April, John Keble's birthday).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://anglicanhistory.org/england/swilberforce/resurrections1868.html |title=The Resurrections of the Truth: A Sermon, preached in the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Oxford, on Saint Mark's Day, April 25, 1868, being the Day of Laying the First Stone of Keble College|first= Samuel|last= Wilberforce|year=1868}}</ref> The college first opened in 1870, taking in thirty students, whilst the chapel was opened on St Mark's Day 1876. Accordingly, the college continues to celebrate St Mark's Day each year.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

Butterfield produced a notable example of [[Victorian Gothic]] architecture, among his few secular buildings, which [[Sir Nikolaus Pevsner|Pevsner]] characterised as "actively ugly",{{sfn|Sherwood|Pevsner|1996|p=227}} and which, according to [[Charles Eastlake]], defied criticism.<ref>Eastlake, ''A History of the Gothic Revival'' "Chapel of Baliol College, Oxford", p 261f.</ref> The social historian [[G.&nbsp;M. Trevelyan]] expressed the then commonly held, and highly dismissive, view: "the monstrosities of architecture erected by order of the dons of Oxford and Cambridge colleges in the days of William Butterfield and [[Alfred Waterhouse]] give daily pain to posterity."{{sfn|Trevelyan|1944|p=524}} Sir [[Kenneth Clark]] recalled that during his Oxford years it was generally believed in Oxford not only that Keble College was "the ugliest building in the world" but that its architect was [[John Ruskin]], author of ''[[The Stones of Venice (book)|The Stones of Venice]].''{{sfn|Clark|1962|p=2}} The college is built of red, blue, and white bricks; the main structure is of red brick, with white and blue patterned banding. The builders were Parnell & Son of Rugby.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

[[File:Keble SCR.jpg|thumb|left|Senior Common Room]]
On its construction, Keble was not always admired within the university. Undergraduates at St John's College started the ''Destroy Keble Society'', which aimed to dismantle the college brick by brick.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Whyte |first=William |date=14 October 2013 |title=Eye of the Beholder |url=https://issuu.com/oxfordalumni/docs/ot-mm-2013/33 |magazine=Oxford Today |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University |access-date=28 June 2019 }}{{Dead link|date=April 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

An apocryphal story claims that a French visitor, on first sight of the college exclaimed ''C'est magnifique mais ce n'est pas la gare?'' ("It is magnificent but is it not the railway station?"). This is a play on Field Marshal [[Pierre Bosquet]]'s memorable line, referring to the [[Charge of the Light Brigade]], ''C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre'' ("It is magnificent, but it is not war"). This story may have been borrowed from [[Arthur Wing Pinero]]'s identical quip said to have been made at the opening ceremony for the [[Royal Courts of Justice]] in London.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

Keble is mentioned in [[John Betjeman]]'s poem "Myfanwy at Oxford", as well as in the writings of [[John Ruskin]] and in [[Monty Python]]'s "Travel Agent" sketch. [[Horace Rumpole]], the barrister in [[John Mortimer]]'s books, was a Law graduate of Keble.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=And finally... |url=http://thebrick.keble.net/brick47/brick47.pdf |magazine=The Brick |location=Oxford |publisher=Keble College, Oxford |date=2009 |access-date=6 March 2022 |archive-date=6 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206083605/http://thebrick.keble.net/brick47/brick47.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2005, Keble College featured in the national UK press when its bursar, Roger Boden, was found guilty of racial discrimination by an employment tribunal.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,1455086,00.html|title= Oxford college guilty of race discrimination|newspaper = [[The Guardian|guardian.co.uk]] | location=London | first=Matthew | last=Taylor | date=8 April 2005 | access-date=7 May 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.btinternet.com/~akme/versindx.html |title=Employment Tribunal (Reading) case no. 2701126/04 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120630225033/http://www.btinternet.com/~akme/versindx.html |archive-date=30 June 2012 }}</ref> An appeal was launched by the college and Boden against the tribunal's judgement, resulting in a financial out-of-court settlement with the aggrieved employee.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

In Christmas of 2017, a team of alumni from Keble College won the ''[[University Challenge]] Alumni Christmas Special'', a seasonal programme on BBC2. They beat the [[University of Reading]] by 240 points to 0 in the final.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

==Buildings==
[[File:Keble College Dining Hall 2, Oxford, UK - Diliff.jpg|thumb|Keble Hall]]
[[File:Oxford - Keble College - 0638.jpg|thumb|Keble Library]]
The main site of Keble contains five quads: Liddon (the largest, named after [[Henry Parry Liddon]]), Pusey (named after [[Edward Bouverie Pusey]]), Hayward (named after [[Charles William Hayward|Charles Hayward]]), De Breyne (named after Andre de Breyne) and Newman (named after [[John Henry Newman]]).<ref name="Keble Tour">{{cite web|url=https://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/about/tour|title=Tour the College|publisher=keble.ox.ac.uk|access-date=13 December 2018|archive-date=14 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214164529/https://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/about/tour|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Original buildings===
[[File:William Matthison, Keble College.jpg|thumb|Parks Road front, 1910]]
[[File:Liddon Quad Keble .jpg|thumb|Liddon Quad|alt=View over Liddon Quad covered in grass from the Chapel looking towards the Porter's Lodge. The building is the famous red brick.]]
[[File:PuseyQuad Keble.jpg|thumb|Pusey Quad|alt=View of Pusey Quad showing the famous red brick buildings looking towards Porter's Lodge]]
The best-known portion of Keble's buildings is the distinctive main brick complex, designed by Butterfield.<ref name="Risebero1985">{{cite book|first=Bill|last=Risebero|title=Modern Architecture and Design: An Alternative History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yJZS0YtaSCQC&pg=PA94|access-date=19 January 2013|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=978-0-262-68046-2|pages=94–|year=1985}}</ref> The design remained incomplete due to shortage of funds. The Chapel and Hall were built later than the accommodation blocks to the east and west of the two original quadrangles and the warden's house at the southeast corner. The Chapel and Hall were both fully funded by [[William Gibbs (businessman)|William Gibbs]] and were also designed by Butterfield.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

===Modern buildings===
A section west of the chapel was built in a different style in the 1950s with funds from [[Antonin Besse]]. Later still further significant additions have been added, most notably the modern, brick Hayward and de Breyne extensions by [[Ahrends, Burton and Koralek]] (ABK). The extensions were made possible by a generous response from the businessmen Charles Hayward and André de Breyne and other fund-raising efforts.<ref name="Keble Tour"/> The ABK buildings included the college's memorable, futuristic "goldfish bowl" bar, opened on 3 May 1977 and later refurbished and expanded. In 1995, work was completed on the ARCO building by the US-born architect [[Rick Mather]]. This was followed in 2002 by another similarly styled building also designed by [[Rick Mather Architects|Mather]], the [[Sloane Robinson Building]]. Along with a number of additional student bedrooms the Sloane Robinson Building also provided the college with the [[O'Reilly Theatre]] (a large multipurpose lecture theatre), a dedicated room for musical practice, several seminar rooms and a large open plan space which during term time is used as a café and social space for all members of the college.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}} The original fellows' garden was lost in the programme of extension, as were a range of houses on Blackhall Road.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

===O'Reilly Theatre===
The [[O'Reilly Theatre]] is a flexible [[studio theatre]] that was completed in 2002.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=O'Reilly Theatre (Keble College) |url=http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/places/theatres/t15-p1317/oreilly-theatre-keble-college |access-date=2023-10-31 |website=[[Daily Info]]}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=O'Reilly Theatre |url=https://conference.keble.ox.ac.uk/keble-rooms/oreilly-theatre/ |access-date=2023-10-31 |website=Keble College Oxford – Conferences & Events |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name=":22">{{Cite web |title=O’Reilly Theatre at Keble College, Oxford |url=https://theoxfordmagazine.com/venue/oreilly-theatre-oxford/ |access-date=2023-10-31 |language=en-GB |magazine=[[The Oxford Magazine]]}}</ref><ref name=":32">{{Cite web |title=O'Reilly Theatre, Oxford |url=https://cityseeker.com/oxford/760830-o-reilly-theatre |access-date=2023-10-31 |website=cityseeker |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=The O'Reilly Theatre, Oxford |url=https://oxford.cylex-uk.co.uk/company/the-o-reilly-theatre-22987402.html |access-date=2023-10-31 |website=Cylex}}</ref>

The seating capacity of the space ranges from 128 to 250, depending on the setup chosen.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":22"/><ref name=":32"/> The standard configuration is end-on, but alternatives include traverse and in-the-round. The theatre is named after Sir [[Tony O'Reilly]], the billionaire [[Ireland|Irish]] businessman and former international rugby union player, who contributed most of the funds.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Architecture of Keble College |url=https://heritage.keble.ox.ac.uk/history-features/architecture/ |access-date=5 November 2023 |work=History Features |publisher=Keble College, Oxford}}</ref>

====Construction====
The theatre is part of the [[Sloane Robinson Building]] development which was designed by [[Rick Mather Architects]] from 1996–2002.<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 October 2002 |title=New addition at college |language=en-GB |newspaper=[[Oxford Mail]] |url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/6586531.new-addition-college/ |access-date=5 November 2023}}</ref><ref name="2rick-mather&quot;">{{cite web |title=Sloane Robinson Building |url=https://www.rickmather.com/project/category/sloane_robinson_building |access-date=5 November 2023 |publisher=[[Rick Mather Architects]]}}</ref><ref name="newoxfordarchitecture">{{cite web |last=Brindley |first=Tim |date=24 September 2015 |title=Sloane Robinson Building |url=https://newoxfordarchitecture.com/2015/09/24/keble-college-sloane-robinson-building/ |access-date=5 November 2023 |work=New Oxford Architecture}}</ref> Theatreplan designed the theatre itself in collaboration with Rick Mather Architects, at a cost of £1.2 million.<ref name="theatreplan">{{cite web |title=Keble College, Oxford |url=https://theatreplan.com/projects/keble-college-oxford |access-date=5 November 2023 |publisher=Theatreplan}}</ref> The project won the following awards:

; 2003
* [[Brick Awards]] Building of the Year
* Brick Awards Best Public Building
* [[Oxford Preservation Trust]] Environmental Award

; 2004
* [[RIBA]] Award

; 2005
* [[Civic Trust Award]] – Commendation

====Performances====
The Theatre is managed by the Martin Esslin Society, who are responsible for choosing the productions staged in the theatre each term.<ref name=":32"/><ref name=":22"/> Talks are also given by well-known actors.<ref>{{cite book |title=Great Breaks Oxford |date=2019 |publisher=[[Apa Publications]] |isbn=978-1789198119 |series=[[Insight Guides]]}}</ref>

; 2020

* ''[[The Entertainer (play)|The Entertainer]]'' (February 6 – February 10)<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=O'Reilly Theatre, Oxford Events & Tickets 2023 |url=https://www.ents24.com/oxford-events/oreilly-theatre |access-date=2023-10-31 |website=Ents24 |language=en}}</ref>

; 2018

* ''[[Twelfth Night]]'' (January 17 – January 20_<ref name=":5" />
* ''[[The 39 Steps (play)|The 39 Steps]]'' (January 31 – February 3)<ref name=":5" />
* ''Oxford Alternotives'' (March 7) <ref name=":5" />

; Other performances
More performances have occurred but are not listed.<ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Marnoch |first=Cameron |date=13 October 2017 |title=A Modern Day Adaptation of Caesar in the O'Reilly |url=https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2017/10/13/modern-day-adaptation-caesar-oreilly/ |access-date=2023-11-01 |language=en-GB |magazine=The Oxford Student}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Phillips |first=Kiaya |date=25 October 2023 |title='Hamlet' in the Modern World: Interview with Cast and Crew |language=en-GB |newspaper=[[Cherwell (newspaper)|Cherwell]] |url=https://cherwell.org/2023/10/25/keble-hamlet-in-the-modern-world/ |access-date=2023-11-01}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Shamash |first=Yolanda |date=16 February 2017 |title=Anna Karenina is Given a New Lease of Life in the O'Reilly |url=https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2017/02/16/anna-karenina-given-new-lease-life-oreilly/ |access-date=2023-11-01 |language=en-GB |magazine=The Oxford Student}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Hagerty |first=Maeve |date=28 November 2022 |title=Delightful, witty and well-rendered: 'Blithe Spirit' in review |language=en-GB |newspaper=[[Cherwell (newspaper)|Cherwell]] |url=https://cherwell.org/2022/11/28/delightful-witty-and-well-rendered-blithe-spirit-in-review/ |access-date=2023-11-01}}</ref> Performances are often reviewed in the ''[[Oxford Mail]]'' newspaper.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gray |first=Christopher |date=10 March 2010 |title=Bent: O'Reilly Theatre, Keble Colleged |language=en-GB |newspaper=[[Oxford Mail]] |url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/5051729.bent-oreilly-theatre-keble-college/ |access-date=5 November 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Woodforde |first=Giles |date=29 November 2013 |title=Chicago @ O’Reilly Theatre, Keble College, Oxford |language=en-GB |newspaper=[[Oxford Mail]] |url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/10844933.chicago-oreilly-theatre-keble-college-oxford/ |access-date=5 November 2023}}</ref>

===H B Allen Centre===
{{Main|H. B. Allen Centre}}
In July 2004 Keble announced the purchase of the former [[Acland Hospital]] for £10.75 million. This {{convert|1.7|acre|m2|adj=on}} site, situated a couple of minutes walk from the main college buildings, housed an estimated 100 graduate students. In October 2015 it was confirmed that Keble College had received funding from The H B Allen Charitable Trust to redevelop the Acland Site in order to provide double the number of graduate rooms. This was the largest single donation in the college's history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2015-10-22-keble-college-receives-largest-donation-its-history-major-new-development|title=Keble College receives largest donation in its history for major new development – University of Oxford|website=www.ox.ac.uk|date=22 October 2015 }}</ref> Work on construction of the H B Allen Centre, designed by [[Rick Mather]], began in 2016, with the first graduate students moving in<!--not a mistake--> in October 2018. Keble previously owned several houses across Oxford which were used as additional student accommodation, but these were sold following the purchase of the Acland site.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

The H B Allen Centre was officially opened by [[Prince William, Duke of Cambridge]] on 3 October 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Duke of Cambridge opens university centre |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-49925022 |publisher=BBC |access-date=18 October 2019 |date=3 October 2019}}</ref>

{{wide image|Keble College Oxford University Panorama - May 2010.jpg|900px|A 360° view of Keble College's Liddon Quadrangle}}

==Student life==
[[File:Oxford - Keble College - 0689.jpg|thumb|175px|[[Bumps race|Bumps]] results of the boat club on a wall in Keble]]
The college publishes a termly magazine called ''The Brick'' which is sent to Keble alumni to update them on college life. Students used to publish an irreverent spoof version on the last Friday of each term, also named ''The Brick'', recording college gossip but this version has not been published since [[Hilary term|Hilary]] 2006. The college has since seen the release of a student publication calling itself ''The Breezeblock'', containing both college gossip and a satirical take on college life.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

Each graduate is given a red brick along with their degree certificates.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}
[[File:Keble Brick 2016-05-08 06.31.07.jpg|thumb|Keble Brick]]

Keble were champions of the television quiz show ''[[University Challenge]]'' in 1975 and 1987.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

Each year the Advanced Studies Centre invites distinguished speakers for their Creativity Lecture Series. In 2011 the list included [[Nicholas Humphrey]], [[Tim Ingold]] and [[Steve Rayner]]; in 2012 [[Robin Dunbar]], [[Kevin Warwick]] and [[Margaret Boden]] were featured.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

The Keble Ball is planned by the student committee to coincide with the day-long graduation ceremony in [[Trinity term]] week 2,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kebleball.com/|title=Keble Ball|access-date=15 February 2007|archive-date=21 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221233346/https://www.kebleball.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref> although in 2020 the 150 year commemoration ball was held in week 9 outside of term.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

===Sport===
Keble fields several sports teams. Its rugby teams have been successful in winning the intercollegiate league for five seasons in a row and triumphing in the 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015 and 2017 rugby [[Cuppers]], having also been finalists in 2008 and 2010. [[Keble College Boat Club]], the college rowing club compete annually in [[Torpids]] and [[Summer Eights]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Keble Rowing: A History |url=https://heritage.keble.ox.ac.uk/history-features/keble-rowing-a-history/ |access-date=2023-04-15 |website=Keble College |language=en-GB}}</ref> Keble has also had significant success in football, with the college football team (colloquially known as KCFC) recently completing a historic treble by winning the Men's first XI, second XI and Women's Cuppers in the same season.

Keble College Sports Ground is located on Woodstock Road, and as well as hosting intercollegiate ("Cuppers") matches, also lays the stage for annual fixtures between current undergraduates and Old Members ("Ghosts"), particularly in football and cricket. Keble famously won a historic footballing Treble in the 2023/24 season when they won the Men's, Men's Reserve and Women's Football Cuppers. The first ever Football Cuppers Treble.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Saxon |first=Adam |date=2024-03-03 |title=Football Cuppers 2024: Keble's historic treble |url=https://cherwell.org/2024/03/03/football-cuppers-2024-kebles-historic-treble/ |access-date=2024-03-03 |website=Cherwell |language=en-GB}}</ref> Commemorative photographs of important matches adorn the walls of the Keble Cricket Pavilion inside the ground.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

==''The Light of the World''==
[[File:Hunt Light of the World.jpg|thumb|upright|[[The Light of the World (painting)|''The Light of the World'']] (later version)]]
Keble owns the original of [[William Holman Hunt]]'s painting ''[[The Light of the World (painting)|The Light of the World]]'', which is hung in the side chapel (accessed through the chapel). The picture was completed in 1853 after eight years of work and originally hung in the [[Royal Academy]]. It was then given as a gift to the college. Hunt originally wanted the painting to be hung in the main chapel but the architect rejected this idea, as a result, he painted another version of the painting which is in [[St Paul's Cathedral]], London. This copy was painted by Hunt when he was nearly 70.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

==College stamps==
{{Main|Oxford and Cambridge College Stamps}}

Keble College has the distinction of being the first college to issue stamps for the prepayment of a porter/messenger delivery service in 1871 only one year after it was founded, and it set the pace for other Oxford colleges to issue their own stamps. This service was successfully challenged by the post office in 1886. Keble also issued a college stamp in 1970 to mark its 100th anniversary.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

== Notable conferences at Keble ==

* The Declaration of Clergy on Ritual Conference (January, 1904)<ref>''The Declaration of Clergy on Ritual: Conference of Clergy at Keble College, Oxford, January 12th and 13th 1904'' ([[Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge]], 1904)</ref> 
* The Conference on New Ideals in Education (31 March – 7 April 1923)<ref>''Report of the Conference on New Ideals in Education: Held at Keble College, Oxford, from March 31 to April 7, 1923''</ref>
* The Oxford Movement Conference (July, 1983)<ref>''Oxford Movement Conference: Keble College Oxford July 11th-15th 1983'' (Oxford Movement, 1983)</ref>
* The [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] Centenary Conference (17–24 August 1992)<ref>Jane Chance, ''[[Tolkien and the Invention of Myth]]: A Reader'' (University Press of Kentucky, 2008, {{ISBN|9780813192017}}), p. 222; ''[[The J. R. R. Tolkien Centenary Conference]] Souvenir Book: Keble College, Oxford 17–24 August 1992'' (Tolkien Society, 1992)</ref>
* The 12th International Conference on Brain Tumour Research and Therapy (September, 1997)<ref>''Abstracts Presented at the 12th International Conference on Brain Tumour Research and Therapy, Keble College, Oxford, UK, September 20–23, 1997'' (Kluwer Academic, 1997)</ref>
* The 19th International Radiocarbon Conference (April, 2006)<ref>''Proceedings of the 19th International Radiocarbon Conference: Keble College, Oxford, England, 3–7 April 2006'' (University of Arizona Department of Geosciences, 2007)</ref>

== In popular culture ==

Keble, under snow, appears as [[List of fictional Oxford colleges#Inspector Morse|Baidley College]] in an episode of the television detective show ''[[Endeavour (TV series)|Endeavour]]'', with the young [[Inspector Morse|Morse]] investigating the murder of a don.<ref>Phoebe Taplin, ''Oxford Film Locations'' (Pitkin, 2018, {{ISBN|9781841657936}}), [https://books.google.com/books?id=4EomEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT45 p. 45]</ref>

== Notable members of Keble ==

{{See also|List of alumni of Keble College, Oxford|List of Wardens of Keble College, Oxford|List of members of the Council of Keble College, Oxford|List of Honorary Fellows of Keble College, Oxford}}

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File:Imran Khan 2019 crop.jpg|[[Imran Khan]], [[Cricketer]] turned philanthropist & politician, (former [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]])
File:Ed balls.jpg|[[Ed Balls]], former [[Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer]]
File:Lord Adonis.jpg|[[Andrew Adonis]], British Labour Party politician
File:David Wilson 2008.jpg|[[David Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn|David Wilson]], former [[Governor of Hong Kong]]
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== References ==

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== Sources ==

* {{cite book | last = Clark | first = Kenneth | author-link = Kenneth Clark | year = 1962 | title = The Gothic Revival: An Essay in the History of Taste | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-z2AnAEACAAJ| location = London | publisher = John Murray | isbn = 978-0-7195-3102-6 }}
* {{cite book| last1 = Sherwood| first1 = Jennifer| last2 = Pevsner| first2 = Nikolaus| year = 1996| title = Oxfordshire| series = The Buildings of England| publisher = Yale University Press| isbn = 978-0-300-09639-2| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=NEzDOwAACAAJ}}
* {{cite book | last = Trevelyan | first = G.&nbsp;M. |author-link = G. M. Trevelyan | year = 1944 | title = English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries | location = London | publisher = Longmans| oclc = 465934298 }}

== Further reading ==

* [[Malcolm Parkes|Parkes, M.&nbsp;B.]], comp. (1979) ''The Medieval Manuscripts of Keble College Oxford: a descriptive catalogue, with summary descriptions of the Greek and oriental manuscripts''. xxi, 365 pp.; facsimiles. London: Scolar Press {{ISBN|0-85967-504-1}}

== External links ==

{{Commons category|Keble College, Oxford}}

* {{Official website}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060305041135/http://www.universityrooms.co.uk/colleges/keb.asp Gallery of photographs of Keble College]
* [http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Keble_College.html Great Buildings online – Keble College]
* [http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtour/keble/ Virtual Tour of Keble College] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823183625/http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtour/keble/ |date=23 August 2016 }}
* [http://jcr.keble.ox.ac.uk/ Keble College JCR]
* [http://mcr.keble.ox.ac.uk/ Keble College MCR]

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