Mansfield College
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Blazon: Gules an open book proper inscribed DEUS LOCUTUS EST NOBIS IN FILIO in letters sable bound argent edged and clasped or between three cross crosslets or.
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| Location | Mansfield Road |
| Coordinates | 51°45′27″N 1°15′10″W / 51.757428°N 1.252876°WCoordinates: 51°45′27″N 1°15′10″W / 51.757428°N 1.252876°W |
| Motto | Deus locutus est nobis in filio ("God hath spoken unto us by [his] son", Hebrews 1:1–2) |
| Established | 1838 as Spring Hill College 1886 as Mansfield College |
| Named for | George and Elizabeth Mansfield |
| Sister college | Homerton College, Cambridge |
| Principal | Baroness Kennedy |
| Undergraduates | 214 (December 2012) |
| Postgraduates | 102 |
| Website | www |
| Boat club | Boatclub |
| Map | |
 Location in Oxford city centre
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Mansfield College, Oxford is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. As of December 2012, the college comprises 214 undergraduates, 102 graduates, 36 visiting students and 58 fellows and academics.
The college was founded in 1838 as Spring Hill College, Birmingham, a college for Nonconformist students. In the nineteenth century, although students from all religious denominations were legally entitled to attend universities, they were forbidden by statute from taking degrees unless they conformed to the Church of England.
In 1871, the Universities Tests Act abolished all religious tests for non-theological degrees at Oxford, Cambridge, London and Durham Universities. For the first time the educational and social opportunities offered by Britain's premier institutions were open to all Nonconformists. The Prime Minister who enacted these reforms, William Ewart Gladstone, encouraged the creation of a Nonconformist college at Oxford.
Spring Hill College moved to Oxford in 1886 and was renamed Mansfield College after its greatest donors, George and Elizabeth Mansfield.
The magnificent Victorian buildings, designed by Basil Champneys, were completed in 1889.
Mansfield was the first Nonconformist college to open in Oxford. Initially the college accepted male students only, the first woman being admitted in 1913.
During World War II, over 40 members of staff from Government Code & Cypher School moved to the college to prepare the British codes and cyphers, whilst the GC&CS members at Bletchley Park worked to decipher the German enigma codes.
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