Oxford Inscriptions: Former St Peter-in-the-East Church
This plaque with an inscription to St Edmund of Abingdon is fixed to the outside wall of the former Church of St Peter-in-the-East in Queen’s Lane, now the library of St Edmund Hall.
It reads as follows:
St Edmund of Abingdon
The first Master and Theologian of the University to become Archbishop of Canterbury taught in and around this Church of St Peter-in-the-East during the years 1195–1201 and 1214–1222.
This statue by Rodney Munday was presented by the St Edmund Hall Association in 2007 on the fiftieth anniversary of the Royal Charter being granted to the College.
The statue to which this inscription refers is shown below.
The statue
The statue of St Edmund can be seen from Queen's Lane without entering the college. The photograph on the right was taken through the bars of the locked gate.
Rodney Munday, “Sculpting St Edmund”
(Quad, 27 March 2019)
See also this cryptogram over the entrance to St Edmund Hall that gives the date of the canonization of St Edmund of Abingdon