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| | St Benet's Hall, Oxford |
 | | Oxford of this time was passing through a period of agnosticism, perhaps in part a reaction to the Tractarians: consequently the Bishops, and in particular Manning, were anxious not to expose young Catholic men to the dangers of the University market-place of ideas. |
 | | The Hall became Parker's Hall, but by the time he gave place to Fr Justin McCann in 1920, conditions had changed, and the Hall had by a new development in the University become a Permanent Private Hall, with the official title Aula Sancti Benedicti, St Benet's Hall. |
 | | The present buildings in St Giles were built on the site of some stables by one Samuel Collingwood about 1838, so they are accurately described as Victorian, and in the plural, for they are a pair. |
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