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| Oxford University Mansfield College |
| Mansfield is unusual amongst Oxford colleges in that it originated in Birmingham where it was founded in 1838 as Spring Hill College. As a Nonconformist college it offered residential courses in general and theological education. Then in 1871 an Act of Parliament abolished all religious test for non-theological degrees at Oxford, enabling nonconformists to enter Britain's best universities. Gladstone recommended that a nonconformist institution be set up in Oxford, and in 1886, Spring Hill moved to temporary accommodation on the High. The present college buildings were completed in 1889. |
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