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View from the southwest of Saint Basil’s Church and College of Saint Michael, Toronto as proposed by architect William Hay in 1855
Other Colleges In the 1880s, the university made another attempt to induce the denominational colleges to join. The Roman Catholic St. Michael’s College, founded in 1852 and at the time primarily a theological college, affiliated with the university in 1881. A vision of what the college and its church, St. Basil’s, might be on Clover Hill—a tight cluster of Gothic-inspired structures—was presented by architect William Hay in 1855. A simpler version of the ensemble officially opened in 1856 on Clover Hill, the highest piece of land on the downtown campus, and St. Basil’s Church and the adjacent Odette Hall remain as the university’s oldest surviving buildings. After World War One, St. Michael’s developed more ambitious plans, with the establishment of the world-renowned Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies on Queen’s Park Crescent East. The Presbyterian Knox College continued its affiliation with the university, as did Wycliffe College, which had been founded in 1877 by Low Church Anglicans who wanted “to combat the Catholic heresies allegedly promoted by Trinity,” and joined the university in 1885. In 1891 Wycliffe