St Cross College, Oxford
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Blazon: Argent a Cross Potent Purpure a Quarter counterchanged; and for the Crest upon a Helm with a Wreath Argent and Purpure an Armillary Sphere upon a Stand Or thereon a Dove with wings elevated and displayed Argent holding in the beak a Sprig of Mulberry fructed and leaved proper mantled Purpure doubled Argent
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| University | University of Oxford |
| Location | St Giles' |
| Coordinates | 51°45′24″N 1°15′37″W / 51.756528°N 1.260311°WCoordinates: 51°45′24″N 1°15′37″W / 51.756528°N 1.260311°W |
| Latin name | Collegium Sanctae Crucis Oxoniae |
| Motto | Ad quattuor cardines mundi |
| Established | 1965 |
| Named for | St Cross Road and St Cross Church |
| Sister college | Clare Hall, Cambridge |
| Master | Carole Souter CBE |
| Undergraduates | 0 |
| Postgraduates | 492 (2011/2012) |
| Website | www |
| Boat club | Boat Club shared with Wolfson College Boat Club |
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 Location in Oxford city centre
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St Cross College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It is an all-graduate college with traditional-style buildings on a central site in St Giles', just south of Pusey Street. It aims to match the structure, life and support of undergraduate colleges, with the relaxed atmosphere of an all-graduate college. Founded in 1965, the college is the fourth youngest of Oxford's 38 colleges.
In May 2016, it was announced that the Fellows of St Cross College had elected Carole Souter CBE, Chief Executive of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and Heritage Lottery Fund, as the next Master of the College. In September 2016, she succeeded Sir Mark Jones, who had been Master of St Cross since 2011.
St Cross College was formally set up as a society by the University on 5 October 1965; it was to admit its first graduate students (five in number) in the following year. The establishment of the college, together with that of Iffley (now Wolfson College), arose out of pressure on the University during the early 1960s to solve the related problems of the increasing number of faculty and graduate students who lacked a college affiliation.
The early location of St Cross was on a site in St Cross Road, immediately south of St Cross Church. The college was named for its proximity to these places. In 1976 negotiations began between the college and the members of Pusey House over the possibility of moving the college to the St Giles site. The negotiations were successful, and in 1981 the college moved from St Cross Road into a site owned by Pusey House for a leased period of 999-years. The old site on St Cross Road continued to be used, initially by the Centre for Islamic Studies (at that time an Associated Centre of the college), and then subsequently in the early 1990s the site was developed by the college in collaboration with Brasenose College. The site now houses two residential buildings, which were opened in 1996.
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