Locals and students are all familiar with Agnes, Annie, Elizabeth, Margaret, Katherine and George. These are the church bells of the university chapel on North Street. The six bells are contained in the tower and are hung for full circle ringing. The oldest is Elizabeth, recast in 1940. Agnes is named after the sister of one of the university’s chairs of Greek, George after a student, Margaret after a Scottish medieval queen and Annie after the university’s first female student, Agnes Forbes Blackadder (MA, 1895).A rare example of Late Gothic architecture, the chapel was founded in 1450. The adjacent 1933 halls of residence were once described as “a rambling Gothic dormitory”. The oldest hall is St Regulus (1868). The modern halls are in the “brutalist” style of architecture.
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