It’s a Wroxton College ritual that began with the first students in the spring of 1965: the class portrait. Usually posed outside on the weathered stone porch of the Abbey, the first two decades of portraits were all shot in black and white.
As may be noted by the archival image to the left, such portraits on the porch did not originate with Wroxton College. The gallery on the bottom of this page has a number of other examples.
Each of these portraits—one for every fall and spring semester—was framed and mounted in a corridor in the Abbey. These portraits remain on the walls adjacent to the Reception Office, just off the entrance to the building. The walls of the basement were added to accommodate portraits from some summer programs. Thus there is an ever-expanding gallery of students who called Wroxton Abbey their home.
All of these group portraits—nearly 150 in all—may be seen in the galleries linked below.
