Wilmotte & Associés submits plans for new library at Worcester College in Oxford

By Tom Lowe2026-10-23T11:01:00

College’s 300-year-old existing library said to be no longer fit for ‘modern academic use’

Wilmotte & Associés Architectes has submitted plans to build a new contemporary library building for Worcester College at the University of Oxford.

The Paris-based practice has unveiled detailed plans for the Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones Library, which would be built on the college grounds on a site currently occupied by a car park and part of an orchard.

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