[7][12] The two institutions have striking architectural similarities: both were the work of master mason William Wynford.

[18][19] The Royalists used the cloisters and bell tower to store munitions early in the English Civil War.

The college used to have a reputation for "Golden scholars, silver bachelors, leaden masters and wooden doctors.

[a] The initial building phase saw the construction of the Great Quad with the Gate Tower, the dining hall with the four-storeyed Muniment Tower for access, the chapel, the cloisters (consecrated as a burial site in 1400) with the four-storeyed bell tower (1400), along with the Warden's Barn in New College Lane (1402) and the Long Room (behind the SE corner of the Great Quad), purpose-built as a garderobe.

[31] The three-sided Garden Quadrangle, open at one end and begun by the addition of The Chequer to the east of the Great Quad in 1449, was completed in two stages between 1682 and 1707.

A range known as 'New Buildings' was built along Holywell Street between 1872 and 1896, partly by George Gilbert Scott in High Victorian style (1872), and partly, including the Robinson Tower over the entrance gates, by Basil Champneys in late Victorian style (1885, 1896).

The Gradel Quadrangles were designed by David Kohn Architects and received planning permission in June 2018.

[38] Much of the medieval stained glass in the ante-chapel was restored in a 20-year project which was commended in the 2007 Oxford Preservation Trust Environmental Awards.

[39] The chapel contains a statue of Lazarus by Sir Jacob Epstein[40][38] and a painting by El Greco.

[17][43] The niches of the reredos, which had been plastered over, were uncovered in the 1780s, and were fitted with statues by Sir Gilbert Scott in the late 19th century.

[41][45] The cloisters, containing a large holm oak tree, sit by the western wall of the Chapel, were featured in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, in the scene in which Draco Malfoy is turned into a white ferret.

[48] The gardens include a mound that was first arranged in 1594 (with steps added in 1649,[49] but now smooth with one set of stairs).

In a 1761 edition of Pocket Companion for Oxford the mound is described: When William of Wykeham acquired the land on which to build the college, he agreed to maintain the city wall.

[50] The herbaceous border that runs alongside the wall is mentioned in Historic England's listing of the garden.

[57] As well as appearing repeatedly at the BBC Proms, the choir has made numerous concert tours.

[59] In 1997, the choir won a Gramophone Award in the best-selling disc category for their album Agnus Dei,[60] and in 2008, they won a Gramophone Award in the early music category for their recording of Nicholas Ludford's Missa Benedicta.

[68] In 2014 the organ was restored, with the key actions and other mechanisms being completely renewed by Goetze and Gwynn.

[69] New College has launched Step-Up, a sustained contact outreach initiative which seeks to inspire students from partner schools in England and Wales to apply to Oxford and supports them to make a competitive application.

[72] The club represented Great Britain at the Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1912, and earned a silver medal.

[77] The warden is supported by specialist officers including tutors, bursar, librarian, and chaplain.