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Barnstar

		The Photographer's Barnstar
		For twice going out of your way to take photographs to improve Buildings of Jesus College, Oxford (about a rival college, indeed!) a barnstar is humbly offered with my thanks. Bencherlite ^Talk 16:13, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Editor's Barnstar
	For intelligent editing of Judy Goffman Cutler and Laurence S. Cutler, pages that were overstuffed PROMO when you found them. E.M.Gregory (talk) 11:35, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

		The Photographer's Barnstar
		For contributing some excellent photos of the Christ Church Ground at the University of Oxford. StickyWicket (talk) 21:00, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Brasenose

Hello - Just to say that I am moving on to the Notes for Brasenose, at Grade I listed buildings in Oxford. You've got eight entries! If you've any thoughts on points to be included, I'd be delighted if you were to drop them in. I'm getting most of the detail from the revised Pevsner, but Brasenose has its own history, by J. Mordaunt Crook no less, which I shall also need to comb. With thanks again for the images, and best regards. KJP1 (talk) 20:41, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mordaunt Crook is a bit idiosyncratic in his emphases. The Brasenose college quatercentenary monographs are often more useful for this sort of thing. The "medieval kitchen" is not originally a kitchen, though it may have been used as one, and by my arrival was the servery. This all got changed in the quincentenary refurbishment project (Project Q), and it is now a dining and meeting room. Personally I'm convinced by the argument that it's the hall of one of the previous private halls taken over to form the college, probably Little St Mary's Entry. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 07:51, 27 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that! I've now done the rest of the notes. The preference for Historic England to list by quad range doesn't always make it easy to match their entries with the Pevsner text. So any further corrections/clarifications most welcome. I wonder why they adopted this approach at Oxford? It doesn't seem to be the approach taken at Cambridge where you have, for example, "St John's College, the Buildings Surrounding the First, Second and Third Courts", or "Trinity College, The Buildings surrounding Great Court, Nevile's Court and New Court, and including King's Hostel". KJP1 (talk) 13:22, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The facetious answer would be that my wife's uncle Denys Spittle was behind much of the Cambridge work, and wasn't involved in the Oxford equivalent. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 15:04, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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