Templeton College, Grade II listed college in Kennington, United Kingdom
Templeton College is a college of the University of Oxford located in the Kennington area, just south of the city center. The buildings are made of board-marked concrete arranged around a central courtyard, with a regular grid pattern that gives the campus a consistent and ordered look.
The college was founded in 1965 as the Oxford Centre for Management Studies, the first institution within Oxford dedicated to business and management education. It was renamed Templeton College in the 1980s after a major donation from Sir John Templeton.
The name Templeton comes from Sir John Templeton, the American investor and philanthropist who gave generously to the college in the 1980s. This connection to the world of business and finance still shapes the profile of the people who come to study here.
The college sits in Kennington, a short distance from central Oxford, so it is best reached on foot or by bike along the south of the city. Since it is an active academic institution, it is worth checking in advance which areas are open to visitors.
The study bedrooms were specifically engineered to block out traffic noise from the nearby road, which was an unusual level of care for a college building of that era. This acoustic consideration was built into the structure from the very start, not added later.
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