Westminster College, Oxford was founded in 1851 in Horseferry Road, London, and originally specialised in the training of teachers for Methodist schools. Its neo-Gothic buildings were requistioned during World War One and used as a station for Australian servicemen, during which time the College ceased to function. The site was severely damaged by an incendiary bomb during the blitz of early World War Two, and the buildings were never repaired. They were demolished in the 1960s and the headquarters of the television station Channel 4 now stand on the site. The College moved to a purpose-built campus on Harcourt Hill, Oxford in 1959, which is noted for its fusion of Oxford quads with a 'New England' style of archtecture, evident particularly in the large and distinctive Chapel. 1851 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The Methodist movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity. ... Neo-gothic architecture is an American branch of the Gothic revival style that was imported from England in the 1830s. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... German bomber over the Surrey Docks, London The Blitz (also called the London Blitz), a popular English contraction of the German word Blitzkrieg, meaning Lightning War, was the sustained and intensive bombing of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany during 1940-1941. ... German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ... The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... Channel 4 is a public service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ... Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In architecture a quadrangle, or more colloquially, quad, is a space on a college or university campus usually but not always enclosed on four sides by buildings. ...

Following the move, the college offered a number of Theology and Education degrees which were validated by the University of Oxford. In 2000 sudden financial pressures prompted the Methodist Church to lease the Harcourt Hill site to Oxford Brookes University, effectively causing the College to cease to exist. Some of the student body felt that this lease arrangement was not presented to them until it became a fait accompli and that there was a measure of mismanagement and secrecy associated with the negotiations leading to the move. There were also concerns that neither Oxford University nor Oxford Brookes would be prepared to continue the education of existing students and award appropriate degrees, though teaching did continue under the auspices of Oxford Brookes, and Oxford University honoured its commitment to grant degrees to those students reaching the required standard. Theology is reasoned discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, word or reason). It also refers to the study of other religious topics. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... This article or section should include material from Tenancy agreement A lease is a contract conveying from one person (the lessor) to another person (the lessee) the right to use and control some article of property for a specified period of time (the term), without conveying ownership, in exchange for... Oxford Brookes is a university in Oxfordshire, England. ... Here are some examples of French words and phrases used by English speakers. ... This article concerns the Degrees of Oxford University. ...

The Westminster Institute of Education continues the use of the Westminster name, being a school of Brookes University and continuing to teach Theology, Education and other subjects at what is now known as the Harcourt Hill campus. In reality, this Institute is not widely recognised outside of the research communities associated with the subjects in which it specialises, and Brookes are known to be reticent about promoting it as a 'brand' to undergraduates and prospective undergraduates, preferring instead to consider the Harcourt Hill Campus as nothing other than a part of the wider University. An institute is a permanent organizational body created for a certain purpose. ... Research is an active, diligent, and systematic process of inquiry in order to discover, interpret or revise facts, events, behaviours, or theories, or to make practical applications with theis also used to describe a collection of information about a particular subject. ...

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• Old Students' Information