1246 - St. Edmund Hall Entrance - Oxford, UK
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N 51° 45.185 W 001° 15.037
30U E 620751 N 5735024
This chronogram is formed from an inscription at the entrance to St. Edmund Hall, a college of Oxford University.
Waymark Code: WM1227X
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/07/2020
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Alfouine
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The following details are extracted from this Wikipedia page.

"St Edmund Hall (sometimes known as The Hall or affectionately as Teddy Hall) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. The college has a claim to be "the oldest academical society for the education of undergraduates in any university" and is the last surviving medieval hall at the University.

The college is located just off Queen's Lane, near the High Street, in central Oxford. After more than seven centuries as a men-only college, it has been coeducational since 1979

As of 2018, the college had a financial endowment of roughly £58 million.

History
Similar to the University of Oxford itself, the precise date of establishment of St Edmund Hall is not certain; it is usually estimated at 1236, before any other college was formally established, though the founder from which the Hall takes its name, St Edmund of Abingdon, Oxfordshire, the first known Oxford Master of Arts and the first Oxford-educated Archbishop of Canterbury, lived and taught on the college site as early as the 1190s. The name St Edmund Hall (Aula Sancti Edmundi) first appears in a 1317 rental agreement.

St Edmund Hall began life as one of Oxford's ancient Aularian houses, the medieval halls that laid the foundation of the University, preceding the creation of the first colleges. As the only surviving medieval hall, its members are known as "Aularians"...

...Entrance

An engraving of the college coat of arms is found above the entrance to the college on Queen's Lane.

As seen in this image, the coat of arms sits above the following Latin dedication "sanctus edmundus huius aulae lux", or "St Edmund, light of this Hall".

It is a very common practice within the University to use chronograms for dedications. When transcribed into Latin, they are written in such a way that an important date, usually that of a foundation or the dedication itself, is embedded in the text in Roman numerals.

In the above dedication, the text is rendered as

sanCtVs edMVndVs hVIVs aVLae LVX

and, in this case, adding the numerals gives:

C + V + M + V + V + V + I + V + V + L + L + V + X = 1246

(For this reading one must disregard the usual "subtractive" convention — according to which, for example, "IV" would be 4, not 6.) The year 1246 is the date of the canonisation of St Edmund of Abingdon."
Type of numerals used: Roman

Text of the original chronogram: sanCtVs edMVndVs hVIVs aVLae LVX

English translation of the chronogram: St Edmund, light of this Hall

Pure chronogram?: yes

Natural chronogram?: no

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