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Dorothy Wadham (/ ˈ w ɒ d ə m /; née Petre) (1534/1535 – 16 May 1618) was an English landowner and the founder of Wadham College, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. Wadham was the first woman who was not a member of the royal family or titled aristocracy to found a college at Oxford or Cambridge. [1]
The college was founded by Dorothy Wadham (née Petre) in 1610, [7] according to the wishes set out in the will of her husband Nicholas Wadham.Over four years, she gained royal and ecclesiastical support for the new college, negotiated the purchase of a site, appointed the West Country architect William Arnold, drew up the college statutes, and appointed the first warden, fellows, scholars ...
Among the principal features are the Wadham tombs; those of Sir William Wadham of Merryfield and Edge and of his mother, dated 1452, and Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham, 1609 and 1618, co-founders of Wadham College, Oxford. The tower, which was built in the first quarter of the 16th century, [2] rises two storeys above the nave. It has three bays ...
He was then commissioned in 1610–1613 by Dorothy Wadham, a Somerset resident, to design and oversee the building of Wadham College, Oxford. [6] Wadham College is widely [by whom?] regarded as the last major public building in the UK to have been built according to the mediaeval principles of a supervising master mason. [citation needed]
15th century alabaster effigy thought to represent Elizabeth Popham, heiress of Merryfield, Ilton Church. [13] She was the wife of Sir John III Wadham and the collar of roses worn around her neck is said to represent the crest of Wadham, [14] a rose argent between a pair of antlers (as visible on the monument to Nicholas II Wadham (died 1609) in Ilminster Church [15])
Centre Building – Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners for the London School of Economics; Centre for Creative Learning – Building Design Partnership for Francis Holland School; Clore Music Studios – John McAslan + Partners for New College, Oxford; Dorothy Wadham Building – Allies and Morrison for Wadham College, Oxford
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Although Dorothy Wadham was largely responsible for overseeing the foundation and building of Wadham College, Oxford [13] a nephew, possibly Sir John Wyndham, is recorded as attending on his dying uncle Nicholas Wadham (1531/1532 – 1609). A detailed record, preserved in the College archives, was drawn up by Wyndham of a discussion held with ...