The college Adam attended was known as Gloucester College. It had been founded in the 13th century using a bequest from the Abbey of Gloucester and was devoted to teaching Benedictine monks. Secular students were not allowed. The college he attended and even some of the buildings he would have recognised have lasted into our modern era, but you will not find Gloucester College on a modern map of Oxford. Not surprisingly for a College run by monks, it suffered at the hands of Henry VIII and was turned into a centre for educating seculars. With a change of name and new endowments, the College survived but is now known as Worcester College. The image above shows the back of some of the mediaeval cottages that formed lodgings for the monk scholars, one cottage for each monastery sending monks to the college.