From Studium to Station

This report presents the results of over 40 years of excavation, historic building survey and documentary research that has been carried out by Oxford Archaeology and others at the site of the Cistercian house of Rewley, a chantry founded in 1280. It became an abbey and stadium providing accommodation for monks studying at the university, and can therefore claim to be one of Oxford's earliest colleges. The railway station that subsequently occupied the site in 1851 followed the design of the Crystal Palace, built for the Great Exhibition, and was the last surviving representative of that internationally important building.

Head of Buildings Archaeology, Oxford Archaeology





Before moving to St Ives in the early 1990s, David Wilkinson spent 30 years as a design and planning consultant in Berkshire. He has written extensively on late Victorian and Edwardian art and literature and has contributed to a number of books on St Ives art. His recent titles include ‘Guy Thorne’: C Ranger Gull: Edwardian Tabloid Novelist and his Unseemly Brotherhood (2012), Arthur Greening: That Damned Elusive Publisher (2016), The Death of a Hero: The Quest for First World War Poet Richard Aldington’s Berkshire Retreat (2016) and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Sculptor:The London Years: The Narrative behind The Myth (2017).