William of Wykeham founds New College, Oxford
1379
The wealthy bishop of Winchester endowed an Oxford college whose innovation was linking a dedicated grammar school, Winchester, to a university college for graduates. The model created a single educational ladder from boy to bachelor of theology, and its architectural plan - a quadrangle with chapel, hall, and chambers - would be copied across England and eventually across the world.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.