Oxford Taylor Institution comprises buildings housing the libraries dedicated to the study of European languages. It includes also classrooms used by medieval and modern languages faculty. Since 1889 a prestigious foreign literature course was initiated at the Institute Taylor. It was founded in 1845, funded in large part by a remarkable legacy of architect Sir Robert Taylor (1714-1788). Institution and library are located in the east wing of neo-classical building, designed by Charles Cockerell to house the institute and the Randolph Galleries (now the Ashmolean Museum), located at the southern end of St Giles’. Another building in Wellington Square is hosting the Annex institution of the Greek and Slavonic. The library serves the most part, those who are studying for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, for different degrees of MA and D Phil. Content buildings on St Giles’ weight have in Western European languages, especially French, German , Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, with a total of about five hundred thousand volumes. Appendix Greek and Slavonic focuses on Greek glory (including Russian), Uralic languages, and Albanian.
