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Despite appearances, for the college is set in
expanses of immaculately kept lawns behind large, wrought iron gates,
Trinity is one of Oxford's smaller colleges. The founder, Sir Thomas Pope,
served as a treasurer to Henry VIII and was responsible for managing the
estates of monasteries dissolved during the Reformation. One of those
estates was Durham College, and it was on this site that Trinity College was
founded in 1555. Ironically, the site is barely 100 yards from the point on
Broad Street where the protestant bishops Latimer and Ridley were burned at
the stake by Catholic Queen Mary in the same year. |
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