The repairs to the church were very expensive and donations were received from most of the Oxford colleges and also Queen Anne.

[5] The only major change to the interior of the church during its conversion into a library was the raising of the original floor by over four feet to provide space for the lower reading rooms.

The science section is named after a former Lincoln College Fellow, Howard Florey (1898–1968), instrumental in the development of penicillin, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

[5] The Library still has a full peal of eight bells, which are regularly rung by the Oxford Society of Change Ringers, founded in 1734.

[5] There is another All Saints Church in the suburb of Headington to the east of central Oxford, on Lime Walk.