 Under the leadership of Joseph Kirwan (1910–2005), who became principal in 1962, it was renamed Plater College in 1965, and moved from makeshift facilities at Boars Hill to a new purpose-built residential college on Pullens Lane in Headington during the late 1970s.Plater College was home to the G. K. Chesterton Institute in the UK, and the G. K. Chesterton Library, and publisher of the literary journal, "Second Spring".Plater had a Catholic ethos with daily mass being said before the evening meal.