College Facts
- Founded 1614 in Louvain (Belgium) for the education of English Jesuits.
- 1624 moved to Liège. In 1626 granted a charter of endowment by Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria.
- During the wars following the French Revolution relocated to Stonyhurst, England. Philosophy remained at Stonyhurst, while Theology moved to St. Beuno's in North Wales (where Gerard Manley Hopkins was a student).
- In 1926 the two faculties were reunited in a single campus at Heythrop in Oxfordshire.
- In the mid-1960s began admitting non-Jesuit staff and students.
- Heythrop College moved to London in 1970, and in 1971 became one of the colleges of the University of London.
- In 1993 moved to its present location in Kensington Square: a pleasant campus in west-central London, close to many amenities, open spaces and public transport. The nearest tube station is Kensington High Street (District and Circle).