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Catte Street runs north–south, continuing as Parks Road to the north (beyond a junction with Broad Street and Holywell Street). The street passes along the eastern side of Radcliffe Square and forms a junction with the High Street to the south.
Hertford Bridge, looking towards Catte Street, with the Sheldonian Theatre in the background. The bridge is often referred to as the Bridge of Sighs because of its supposed similarity to the better known Bridge of Sighs in Venice.
- Bridge of Sighs
- Hertford College, Oxford
- 1914
- Covered bridge
It is located on Catte Street in the centre of Oxford, directly opposite the main gate to the Bodleian Library. The college is known for its iconic bridge, the Bridge of Sighs. There are around 600 students at the college at any one time, comprising undergraduates, graduates and visiting students from overseas.
- Hertford College in the University of Oxford
- As the hart panteth after the water brooks
- Collegium Hertfordiense
- Sicut cervus anhelat ad fontes aquarum (Latin)
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Catte Street runs north-south, continuing as Parks Road to the north (at a junction with Broad Street and Holywell Street ). The street passes along the eastern side of Radcliffe Square and forms a junction with the High Street to the south.
Sep 8, 2021 · Catte Street, Oxford. This street was recorded as Kattestreete in the early thirteenth century, as Mousecatcher’s Lane in 1442, and as Cat Street in the eighteenth century. It has always been in the parish of St Mary-the-Virgin.
1549. Hart Hall grows and develops. From the 15th century, Hart Hall began to develop as a distinct institution. It gradually absorbed the neighbouring tenements and halls on Catte Street - Arthur Hall, Black Hall and Cat Hall, which occupied most of the present site of Old Buildings Quad.
Hertford College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England located on Catte Street in the centre of Oxford. In the two world wars, a total of 171 members of Hertford College died.
