Queen’s Lane

Undergraduate Accommodation for First-Years

Who can stay in Queen’s Lane?

  • First-year undergraduates are guaranteed a room on the main College site (on Queen’s Lane, just off Oxford’s High Street).
  • If you wish to return to live on the main site in your third-year, you can join the room ballot to live in the newly refurbished Besse building or our historic Front Quad.

What is provided in my room?

Almost all rooms have a single bed with mattress, a bed-side cabinet, chest of drawers, desk, desk chair, easy chair, coffee table, wardrobe/hanging space for clothes, desk lamp, book shelf, IT socket, curtains/blinds, and a sink.

What are the Queen’s Lane facilities?

The College mainly provides shared bathrooms with some en-suite rooms as well as shared kitchen facilities for all first-year accommodation.

Alongside accommodation and teaching rooms, the Queen’s Lane site houses a large modern dining hall, common rooms, IT suites, a chapel, music room, laundry facilities, a college library and a bar.

Where will I live?

First-year undergraduates will live in Kelly, Emden, Whitehall and Staircase 8.

Kelly

Named after a John Kelly, a former College Principal (1951-1979), the Kelly building offers single study rooms with shared bathroom and kitchen facilities.

The Kelly building is situated in Forum Gardens, behind the Front Quad, and is home to the Hall’s Living Wall which was installed in 2019 to improve the College site’s biodiversity and community wellbeing. St Edmund Hall is proud to be the first Oxford College to install a living wall and marks our journey to 'green the Hall' both in physical appearance and in its environmental impact.

Two students talking to each other in a bedroom in the Kelly Buidling
Student bedroom in the Kelly Building on the main College site
Student bedroom in Kelly.
The Emden Building at St Edmund Hall
Kelly Building.
Front Quad seen from above
View of the Front Quad from Kelly.
Kelly building on the top left.
The College's Living Wall, installed in 2019 is on the side of the Kelly building to improve the Hall's biodiversity and help student mental wellbeing.
The College's Living Wall, installed in 2019 is on the side of the Kelly building to improve the Hall's biodiversity and help student mental wellbeing.

Emden

Named after a A. B. Emden, a former College Principal (1929-1951), the Emden building offers single study rooms with shared bathroom and kitchen facilities.

It is situated in the rear quad of the College.

Room in the Emden Building
A room in the Emden Building on the main College site
A student reading in his room in the Emden building
A student room in the Emden building on the main College site

Whitehall

Whitehall offers single study bedrooms with shared bathroom and kitchen facilities and is accessible via Forum Gardens to the rear of the College site.

Completed in 1975, it stands on the site of the medieval White Hall which was annexed to St Edmund Hall by 1399/1400.

Room in Whitehall
Students viewing a first-year room in the Whitehall Building on the main College site.
Room in Whitehall over looking the High Street
Undergraduates in a room in the Whitehall Building on the main site, overlooking the High Street

Staircase 8

Staircase 8 at Queen’s Lane has five en-suite single study rooms with the rest of the rooms with shared bathroom facilities. Students have access to the kitchen facilities in the Whitehall building which is next door to staircase 8.

Staircase 8 is situated between Whitehall and the Besse buildings to the rear of the Queen’s Lane site.

Staircase 8, Room 1.2
Room 1.2 on Staircase 8, on the main college site.
Entrance to staircase 8
Entrance to staircase 8 (building on the right)

St Edmund Hall Main Site

Accommodation Questions?

Contact the Accommodation Manager at accommodation.officer@seh.ox.ac.uk.

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