Wantage Hall, built 1908, is the oldest hall of residence at the University of Reading. The hall is in the town of Reading in the UK. The displayed motto "Astra castra, Numen lumen" (the stars are my camp, the deity my light) is that of the Knights of the Maccabees. The hall is situated just off the University's Whiteknights Campus, twenty minutes walk from the town centre, ten minutes from the University library and five minutes from the Royal Berkshire Hospital. Christchurch Green, with shops and buses to the town, is nearby. Wantage Hall is one of 13 Halls belonging to the University of Reading. Wantage Hall enjoys its own independent Library. Wantage Hall Librarian 2006-7, James Dennison, completed a major redevelopment of the Library and it is now regularly open after years of being dormant. The Hall is renowned within the university for its formal dinners, which often sell out. It currently offers students 15 catered meals a week (Monday to Friday), accommodating 245 students.
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“Go where he will, the wise man is at home,
His hearth the earth,—his hall the azure dome;
Where his clear spirit leads him, there’s his road,
By God’s own light illumined and foreshadowed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)