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DIRECTORY.]

OXFORDSHIRE.

;s Y Edgeworth M .A ., F .B .A . Drum m ond prof S or of'political economy
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ftnudy D.C.L. R egius professor of civil law.
William Martin G eldart M .A ., B .C .L . Vinerian professor
f English law.
'’ Foster Hugh E gerton Cunliffe hart. M .A . dean and
estates bursar,
r h a r l e s Grant Robertson M .A . dom estic bursar,
rharles William Chadwick Oman M .A. librarian.

OXFORD.

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Judgment,” painted from a design by Christopher
Schwartz, and restored in 1794 by Egginton, by whom
also the other windows in the ante-chapel were executed :
in 163S the interior of the chapel was fitted up according
co the prevailing taste of those times and the choir
paved with black and white marble, but in 1649 the
building was seriously injured by the violence of the
Parliamentary troops; in 1833 it was restored to some­
what of its original magnificence, under the direction of
Henry S p e n se r Wilkinson M.A. Chichele professor of Mr. Cottenham, at a cost of about £18,000; in 1857-60,
military history.
the windows of the choir were refilled with stained glass
(- Henry Erie Richards E.C.. K.C.S.I., B.C.L., M.A. by the munificence of the first Lord Selborne, then Sir
Chichele professor of international law and diplom acy.
Roundell Palmer, and a Fellow of the College, and in
Charles Robert Mowbray F raser C ruttw ell M .A. dean.
1864-5 a series of statues was added to the fine
Arthur Henry Johnson M .A. chaplain and tuto r.
canopied reredos: the altar-piece is a very fine painting
of Christ bearing the Cross, variously attributed to
M agdalen College.
Morales and Ribalta, both Spanish artists, and over it
Visitor, the Bishop of Winchester.
is a sculptured representation of Christ appearing to
Mary
in the garden, by Sir Francis Chantrey R.A. ; on
Magdalen College was founded in June, 1458, by
William of Waynflete, bishop of Winchester, to whom the north side of the communion table io a small chapel
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ning the alabaster table tomb of Richard Patten,
-the buildings of the suppressed hospital of St. John
the Baptist were granted by Henry VI. in 1457: but father of the founder, removed here in 1833, from the
these being too small for the reception of the society, destroyed church of Waynflete, in Lincolnshire, the
he resolved to enlarge them and the foundation stone birth-place of the founder. The hall, entered from the
0fthe new college was laid 5 May, 1474, by William south-east angle of the cloisters, is a grand and wellTybard B.D. at that time president of the new society, proportioned room, built in a line with, though not on
inthepresence and with the aid of Robert Toly, bishop the same level as the chapel, and has an oriel window
ofSt.David’s; and the erection of the original buildings on the north side near the high table; its extreme
ffas completed in about seven years. The college is length, including the gallery and screen, is 73 feet, and
beautifully situated at the eastern extremity of the city, its width 30^ feet, the passage under the screen being
and is bounded on the east by a branch of the river 8 feet wide : the plaster ceiling, put up by Wyatt at
Cherwell, the main stream of which passes under Mag­ the beginning of the last century, has been replaced by
dalen bridge, and winding through the meadows, joins a fine open timber roof, the gift of Mr. Garnsey, late
the Isis about half a mile below: on the south the Senior Fellow, and designed by Mr. G. F. Bodley R.A.,
buildings extend to the High street, and on the other F.S.A. : the walls are lined with oak wainscot, put. up
sides they are shut in by the premises of the college :n 1541, and adorned with shields of arms of benefactors
school, and by Magdalen grove. The extreme length of of the College; at the upper end the space is divided
thecollege from north to south is 570 feet and from east into nine compartments, six of which represent scenes
to west 330 feet, and it at present comprises three in the life of St. Mary Magdalen : the windows are filled
quadrangles. The entrance to the first, or St. John’s with heraldic glass: the hall contains portraits of Prince
•quadrangle, was, prior to 1883, through an elegant gate­ Rupert, Joseph Addison, Bishops Hough, Phillpotts,
way in the Decorated style immediately opposite the Horne and Willcocks, Lord Selborne, Sir John Burdon
west end of the chapel and erected in 1844 a cost of Sanderson, and a number of others, including the
¿600 from a design by Pugin; this gateway, which Founder, Cardinal Wolsey, Henry Prince of Wales, Dr.
replaced the Jacobean Renaissance gateway built on the Sacheverell and others. The chapel and hall together
■same site in 1635, '"’as removed in 1883, and in its form the south side of the great quadrangle, 011 the
place a new gateway has been erected from the designs west side of which rises the founder’s tower, which has
ofMessrs. Bodley and Garner, architects, of London, on a in and adjoining it a suite of state apartments, now
fresh site in a line with and immediately adjoining forming part of the president’s lodgings; these were
the western end of the High street, or south front, some years since carefully restored and magnificently
which, in 1892, was extensively repaired, and new sets fitted; the library is also on this side: the remaining
of rooms formed, under the direction of Mr. E. P. sides are occupied by students’rooms, the whole square
Warren, architect, of London. The President’s lodgings, being surrounded by a wide cloister, over which, on
rebuiltin 1887-8 from the designs of Messrs. Bodley and three sides, the rooms are carried. The buttresses of the
Garner, form the north side of this quadrangle, the cloisters are surmounted by curious sculptured figures,
eastside ofwhich, an elevation of singular richness and the exact purport of which has been much discussed, but
variety, comprises the west end of the chapel with its is stillundecided. The libraryis a noble room, lengthened
richly ornamented west door, the muniment tower, and in 1822, and recently restored: it includes 800 books and
thegreat gateway or founder’s tower, with its beautiful MSS. presented by the founder, whose episcopal vest­
two-storied oriel, flanked on either side by two niches, ments and shoes are also preserved here, and has two
containing statues of Waynflete, St. Mary Magdalen, fine marble busts of Bacon and Locke. North of the
HenryVI. and St. John the Baptist. In the south-eastern great quadrangle, but separated from it by a wide and
angleofthisquadrangle is an ancient canopied stone pul- 'olendid lawn, about 300 feet square, are the new
pi,from which a University sermon is annually preached ouildings; these, erected in 1733, from a design by
oyancient custom on the festival of St.John the Baptist; Edward Holdsworth M.A. fellow of the college, and
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s^.e °* ^he quadrangle forms part of the new or originally intended to form one side of a large court,
•owithunsquadrangle, the erection of which, begun in are of three storeys, in the Italian style, and have a
]■ 0, was completed in 1884; the buildings consist piazza in the lower storey, on the south front; to the
wo blocks, one of which, facing the High street, is west and north of these buildings stretches the grove
nearly200 feet in length, with a tower 80 feet in height or deer park, well timbered with fine old elms, and
pith 6 eas*ern enc^> forming the main entrance; at containing a herd of fallow deer; on the eastern side
windn ’0n 8aCk storey- are ^so boldly designed oriel is the great meadow, surrounded by the famous “water
bv<r*MS’ an<*
sky line is picturesquely broken walks,” rather more than half a mile in length, and en­
buA
an<^ Mustered stacks of chimneys; the western compassed on its outer side by the divided streams of the
for
northwards at right angles to the other Cherwell: the northern alley, known as “ Addison’s
sets nfU
^eet’. and
whole contains about 30 walk,” is named after Joseph Addison, the poet, who
ofwhioh1^0131^ , es^es two lecture rooms, the larger was a Fellow of the College, and is said to have made
Hall
26 by i6£ feet; a portion of Old Magdalen this his favourite Tesort: the great oak which once
dent's Wl<T^ between the new buildings and the presi- stood at the entrance to the walks, 7 1 feet high and
ha
inc*U(^n? a small but very picturesque 22 in girth, fell on 30 June, 1789: south of the great
room«-S 6n r.
estored and converted into four sets quadrangle is the Chaplain’s court, some of whose
oiMessrs’n„iiW0 was carried out under the direction gabled buildings, occupying the site of a hospital of
chapel thp « Yy,and G‘arner'at a cost of £38,000. The St. John the Baptist, founded in the reign of Henry
5 May ,,, • s^one which was laid by the founder, III. overhang the river: on the southern side of this
chapel a bt-iK P resembles the letter'T; the ante- court rises the magnificent tower, begun in 1492 and
the transvppx
-°* C(?nsiderable dimensions, forming completed in 1505; it is about 150 feet in height,
a
ston/6 P°rtlon> is separated from the choir by decreasing slightly in size towards the top, and consists
Magnificent 1
011 which is placed the organ, a of four storeys with octagonal turrets at the angles:
sincethat flat UJ3aent'> originally built in 1737, and the fourth or belfry storey has on each side two fine
West wimW I®?* enlarg®d and improved; the great Perpendicular windows, and the whole is- crowned by
contains a representation of “The Last a rich open battlement, with eight crocketed pinnacles,