Small Quad - Rose Arbour and Rear of Kettell Hall and Marriott House at Trinity College, Oxford

Image: © Hannah Jones Taken: 26 Aug 2023

"Small Quad" at Trinity College, Oxford. The image shows the rear of the Grade II* listed 17th C Kettell Hall (to the right), and the back of Marriott House (No 53 Broad Street/Blackwell’s Music Shop - https://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/broad/buildings/north/53.html ) in the centre. Blackwell's Music Shop occupies the ground floor (the grey bricks), above that is graduate student accommodation for Trinity College. A corridor connects Marriott House to Kettell Hall internally. The building to the left of the image contains the kitchens of the White Horse pub. The rose arbour was built in the early 2010s by Charles Atkinson of Iron Awe. Its design features griffins' heads at its top, consistent with griffins seen in multiple places around Trinity (atop gates, on buildings, and on the College crest). From the college website circa 2019: "This garden was designed to soften what is an aesthetically-awkward area of the college." "It is essentially a series of hoops supported by four legs rising from wooden planters. Originally we planted two climbing roses in each container, but they now contain the pink form of Clematis armandii. We have installed another central stem to give extra support to the structure with a circular bench around the base of it.". https://web.archive.org/web/20190513113057/https://www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/gardens/ The rose arbour currently features Albertine roses. The bench in the middle has a plaque that reads: "In recognition of Kennett and Judith Simmons, regular attenders at the UVa Summer School, whose generosity enabled the creation of this Rose Garden".

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