[8][9][10] The college entrance is on the north side of High Street, whilst it has a long frontage onto Radcliffe Square.

All Souls did formerly have students: Robert Hovenden (Warden of the college from 1571 to 1614) introduced undergraduates to provide the fellows with servientes (household servants), but this was abandoned by the end of the Commonwealth.

Once, upon encountering a woman fellow, the geneticist E. B. Ford swung his umbrella at her and shouted "Out of my way, henbird!".

Christopher Codrington was born in Barbados, and amassed a fortune from his sugar plantation in the West Indies.

[17] Under the terms of his will Codrington bequeathed books worth £6,000 to the college in addition to £10,000 in currency for the library to be rebuilt and endowed.

The design of the sundial, produced in 1658 for the south wall of the Chapel, is attributed to Wren.

By the mid-19th century the Chapel was in great need of renovation, and so the current structure is heavily influenced by Victorian design ideals.

[21] All services at the chapel are according to the Book of Common Prayer; the King James Bible is also used rather than more modern translations.

[23] In the three years following the award of their bachelor's or master's degrees, students graduating from Oxford and current Oxford postgraduate students having graduated elsewhere[24] are eligible to apply for examination fellowships (sometimes informally referred to as "prize fellowships") of seven years each.

[25] Every year in early March, the college hosts an open evening for women, offering women interested in the examination fellowship an opportunity to find out more about the exam process and to meet members of the college.

[30] Past questions have included: Before 2010 candidates also faced another examination, a free-form "Essay" on a single, pre-selected word.

The dinner did not form part of the assessment, but was intended as a reward for those candidates who had reached the latter stages of the selection process.

However, the dinner has been discontinued as the college felt candidates worried too often that it was part of the assessment process.

[9] There are no compulsory teaching or requirements, although examination fellows must pursue a course of study or research at some point within their first two years of fellowship.

Past and current fellows of the college have included: In the 2011 historical fantasy novel A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness, main character and vampire Matthew Clairmont is a Fellow of All Souls College, having passed the examination in 1989 after writing an essay on the topic of "desire".