Trinity College, which welcomes Associate Students only from WISC, was founded in 1544. It is one of the smaller colleges, having just 257 undergraduates, and tends to have a strong esprit de corps.
The College was founded by Queen Mary I, upon the site of an older college and monastery, Durham College, founded in 1286. Some of the earlier buildings still survive, dating from 1421.
The extensive gardens are perhaps the most beautiful in Oxford.
