List of Fictional Oxford Colleges - Other Works

Other Works

  • All Saints College - North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell (veiled stand-in for All Souls College)
  • Baillie College - Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, attended by successive Cabinet Secretaries, Sir Arnold Robinson and Sir Humphrey Appleby. A very thinly veiled reference to Balliol; indeed in several episodes Sir Humphrey Appleby is seen wearing a Balliol tie, and in the 2011 stage play version, the fictionalisation has been dropped entirely and Balliol College is overtly mentioned as the alma mater of the character.
  • Bartlemas College - Kate Ivory detective novels, Veronica Stallwood; Takes its name from St Bartholomew's Chapel, itself belonging to Oriel College.
  • Bede College - Operation Pax, Michael Innes (pseudonym of J. I. M. Stewart); Allusion to the Old English polymath Bede, whose histories give us the account of St Hilda, from whom St Hilda's College, Oxford takes its name.
  • Brazenface College - Verdant Green, Cuthbert Bede (veiled stand-in for Brasenose College)
  • Cardinal College - A Yank at Oxford (based on Christ Church); Christ Church was originally founded by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey as "Cardinal College" in 1525.
  • Charsley College - The Casual Ward, A. D. Godley
  • Clapperton College - The Oxford Virus, Adam Kolczynski (based on Christ Church)
  • Groan College-Home of the I.M.A.C A full history can be found here
  • Hacker College - The Complete Yes Minister
  • Judas College - Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm (based on Merton College)
  • The King's College (known as "Dick's" after its founder Richard II) - Colonel Butler's Wolf and Our Man in Camelot, Anthony Price; "The King's College" is another name for Oriel College; Richard II has no historically significant involvement with Oxford University or the town.
  • Lancaster College - Incense for the Damned, a Peter Cushing horror film set partially in Oxford, based on Doctors Wear Scarlet by Simon Raven
  • Lazarus College - Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope
  • Magog College - A Study in Sorcery, Michael Kurland/Randall Garrett
  • Mandeville College - The Crime of the Communist, a Father Brown story by G. K. Chesterton
  • Old College - Lot No. 249, Arthur Conan Doyle
  • St Ambrose's College - Tom Brown at Oxford, Thomas Hughes (probably based on Oriel); Filmed at Oriel.
  • St Bride's College - Michaelmas Term at St Brides, Brunette Coleman (Philip Larkin)
  • St Christopher's College - The Case of the Gilded Fly and The Moving Toyshop, Edmund Crispin
  • St David's College - A Study in Sorcery, Michael Kurland/Randall Garrett
  • St George's College - Yes Minister TV series
  • St Jerome's College - Endymion Spring, Matthew Skelton; college on St Giles, with echos of Somerville.
  • St Joseph's College - Rumpole series
  • St Jude's College - Formosa, Dion Boucicault; August Folly, Angela Thirkell (also in Lewis; see above)
  • St Matthew's College - The Dimension Riders, Daniel Blythe
  • St Margaret's College - Fire and Hemlock, Diana Wynne Jones (probably based on Lady Margaret Hall)
  • St Mark's College - The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford; Patrick Grant crime novels, Margaret Yorke; The Stars' Tennis Balls, Stephen Fry
  • St Mary's College - Sinister Street, Compton Mackenzie (based closely on Magdalen, MacKenzie's old college); and The Poison Tree, Tony Strong (based on St Peter's)
  • St Paul's College - Ravenshoe, Henry Kingsley; August Folly, Angela Thirkell
  • St Sexburga's College - Horace Sippog and the siren's song, Su Walton
  • St Thomas' College - An Oxford Tragedy and The Case of the Four Friends, John Cecil Masterman; St Thomas the Martyr's Church is located near Osney, and belongs to Christ Church.
  • Scone College - Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh; Something Nasty in the Woodshed and The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery by Kyril Bonfiglioli, in whose novels Scone College represents Balliol; King John de Balliol was crowned king at Scone in 1292.
  • Shrewsbury College - Gaudy Night, Dorothy L. Sayers (women's college, probably based on Somerville)
  • Simon Magus College - Let Dons Delight, Ronald Knox
  • Tresingham College - The Oxford Virus, Adam Kolczynski (based on Keble College)
  • Warlock College - Landscape with Dead Dons, Robert Robinson
  • An unnamed college in A Staircase in Surrey, a quintet of novels by J. I. M. Stewart, based on Christ Church, but never named. Surrey is the name of a quadrangle within the college.

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