The Main Hall at St John's College: dark oak panelling hung with gilt-framed portraits, a carved stone fireplace, and long tables laid with white linen and glassware.

OUH Radiology — supported by Ergéa

Christmas Celebration

Tuesday 15 December 2026Main Hall, St John’s College, OxfordBlack tie

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The Main Hall, laid for dinner · Peter Stevens, CC BY 2.0

You are invited

On Tuesday 15 December 2026, the department gathers in the Main Hall of St John’s College for an evening in black tie: drinks, dinner beneath the portraits, a fiercely contested quiz and a few short speeches.

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Kindly supported by Ergéa UK

Ergéa’s generous support has allowed us to run this event. They have worked with OUH since 2021 running our Managed Equipment Services, and installed the John Radcliffe’s new MRI scanner and SPECT/CT gamma camera in 2025.

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Seventeenth century

The College

St John’s was founded in 1555. Its Canterbury Quad, built for Archbishop Laud in the 1630s, is one of the finest in Oxford. Dinner is in the Main Hall, beneath oak panelling and gilt-framed portraits.

Venue and getting there
Canterbury Quad at St John's College: a two-storey arcade of round stone arches running the length of the quad, in honey-coloured stone.
Canterbury Quad · Godot13, CC BY-SA 4.0

Clinical details

The Invitation

Reported in the usual way. Please read in full before booking.

Prices and who can come
Study: Christmas CelebrationDept: Radiology, OUHStatus: Final

Your invitation

Clinical details
End of year. Department fatigued but in good spirits.
Request
Department Christmas celebration.
Technique
Black tie. Drinks reception, dinner, quiz and speeches in the Main Hall of St John’s College.
Findings
Tuesday 15 December 2026. Candlelight. Colleagues out of scrubs and unrecognisable. No acute pathology.
Impression
Unmissable.
Recommendation
Attendance. Book early — the subsidised tickets go first.

Black tie

The Evening

A drinks reception, dinner in Hall, quiz, short speeches, then drinks to close. A vegetarian option can be chosen when you book.

The running order
Front Quad at St John's College under snow: the gate tower with its carved statue, battlemented ranges either side, and the lawn covered white.
Front Quad in winter · © St John's College, Oxford, used with permission

First 50 tickets £20 · then £70

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Tickets are handled on Eventbrite. Booking closes 1 December 2026.

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