KEBLE COLLEGE

At the top of St Cross Road, we turn left and go through South Parks Road with its line of laboratories, and then turn right into Parks Road. On the left, opposite one of the university museums, is Keble College. It was founded in 1870 in memory of John Keble,[1] one of the worthies of the Oxford Movement. At first, only members of the Established Church were admitted, though the college itself enjoyed full membership of the university from the beginning. The religious test has now been abolished.
Architecturally, the college is a contradiction. The proportions are fine, but the vast expanse of red brick – and ugly red brick at that – ­is overwhelming. The architect was William Butterfield.[2] (From Goulder, Pilgrimage Pamphlets: Oxford & Cambridge, 1963)

[1] Lived 1792-1866.
[2] Lived 1814-1900.