From stadium to station - Ric Tyler

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.