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Perpendicular roof and north window, and about 1700 Latin, Jurisprudence, Comparative Philology, a
was re-wainscotted and ceiled, and in 1857 restored Romance Languages and White's Professor of*v0 V
under the direction of Mr. J. C. Buckler, architect; Philosophy. The foundation at present consists 0f
it contains various portraits, among which are those President/ 15 Fellows (three of whom are Profes^
of the founder, an original painting on panel; Bishop Fellows) and 25 Scholars; there are also four Ex
Oldham, co-founder; Charles, 1st baron Tenterden and hibitioners. The college presents to 16 benefices,anditThomas Burgess, Bishop of St. David’s, 1803, and of annual .income is estimated at £12,000.
Salisbury, 1825, both tutors of the college; Henry Phil- Thomas Case M.A. president; elected in 1904.
pot-ts, Bishop of Exeter, 1831-69, Lord Stowell, Edward Rev. Charles Plummer M.A. chaplain.
Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff, and others. A statue Arthur Sidgwick M.A. fellow
of the founder stands in a niche on the south side of Arthur Ernest Jolliffe M.A. tutor and mathematical
the quadrangle, and 011 the same side is thelibrary, which lecturer.
was shortened at the east end in 1676; it contains a Albert Curtis Clark M.A. Corpus professor of latin.
remarkably fine collection of curious printed books and Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller M.A., D.Sc. tutor.
manuscripts, a large collection of political tracts from George Beardoe Grundy D.Litt., M.A. tutor.
the 15th to the 19th centuries, specimens of early Italian Paul Vinogradoff M.A., LL.D., hon. D.C.L. Corpus
typography, and a valuable collection of Italian works,
professor of jurisprudence.
bequeathed in 1755 by Lord Coleraine. Eastward of the Richard Winn Livingstone M.A. vice-president, assistant
library, and separated from it only by a corridoT, is tutor, lecturer and librarian.
the chapel, erected in 1517; in 1676-7 the inner chapel Henry Le Blanc Lightfoot M.A. bursar.
was lengthened westwards, the ante-cliapel enlarged, the William Phelps M.A. assistant tutor and lecturer.
chapel floor relaid in black and white marble, and a Robert Balmain Mowatt ALA. dean, assistant tutorand
screen of cedar wood set up ; ithas a good Perpendicular lecturer.
east window and an altar piece representing the Adora­ William AIcDougall M.A. Wilde reader in mental
tion, ascribed to Rubens, and purchased for £2,500 by philosophy.
Sir Richard Worsley bart. from the collection of the John Alexander Stewart M.A. White’s professor of
Prince of Condé; in the college is preserved the pastoral moral philosophy.
staff of the founder, of silver gilt, richly ornamented Rev. William Edward Sherwood M.A. assistant chaplain
and now nearly 500 years old; the eagle lectern was and mayor of Oxford.
given by John Claymond, first president of the college, There are also two lecturers not on the foundation.
1516-37, d. 19 Nov. 1537, whose brass, with an emaciated
Christ Church.
effigy in a shroud and twelve verses, remains nearly per­
fect on the south side of the ante-chapel. Records of
Visitor, The King.
marriages celebrated in this chapel from 1693 to 1734 of Christ Churoh, the largest college in the University,
persons belonging to the parish of Warborough, Oxon, was originally founded by Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop
are preserved in the registers of that parish; there are of York, 011 the site of the suppressed priory of St.
several memorial windows and various monuments • Frideswide, under letters patent of Henry VIII. dated13
south of the chapel is a small court, surrounded on the July 1525 ; and the first stone was laid on the 17th July,
south and east sides by cloisters, the resting place of with great pomp and ceremony, by Dr. John Longland,
many learned men, and including a number of mural Bishop of Lincoln, but after considerable progress was
monuments ; at the east side isthe common room, with a made in the building the cardinal, having fallen into
bust by Chantry of Dr. WalkeT King, Bishop of disgrace with his royal master, was attainted in October,
Rochester, 1809-27, and a fine portrait of Richard Pate, 1532, and the foundation, not being complete in lav,fell
founder of Cheltenham Grammar School : on the south into the king’s hands, with all its revenues, actual and
side of the cloisters is the fellows’ building, erected be­ prospective, some of which he distributed among his
tween 1706 and 1712, on the site of the old cloisters, courtiers. In 1532,by letters patent dated 8 July, Henry
by Thomas Turner D.D. president 1687-1714, at a cost VIII.refounded thecollege,dedicatingitto theHolyTrinity,
of £6,000, from a design, it is said, by Dean Aldrich ; the Virgin Alary and St. Frideswide, and endowed it
the elevation, 119 feet in extent, isof the Ionic order and with an annual revenue of £2,000; but in 1543 theking,
much admired for the chaste style of its architecture: having previously constituted the See of Oxford, ordered
extending from its south front is the fellows’ garden, the surrender of the college, with all its possessions,
which forms a broad, terrace, constructed in part on the which was accordingly made by a deed dated 20 May
rampart of the old city wall, traces of which may be in that year; and'on 4 Nov. 1546, by fresh letters
seen in the wall bounding the garden on the south side. patent, it was re-established and connected with the
In 1884-5 a new block of buildings for this college was newly created See, as a mixed foundation, partly capi­
erected nearly opposite, at the junction of Merton street tular and partly collegiate, under the name of “Chnst
and Grove street; these are of stone in the Gothic Re­ Church;” the priory church of St. Frideswide beingat
naissance style, from designs by T. G. Jackson esq. the same time constituted a cathedral. The foundation
M.A., R.A., F.S.A. ; the Merton street front has four consisted, for about .three centuries, of a dean, eight
bays, with bold pedimented oriels corbelled out from canons, one hundred students, eight chaplains (since
thè first floor and rising.into four gables relieved by reduced to six), a schoolmaster, an organist, eight.lay
niches, and terminating in finials; the ground stage is clerks and eight choristers. One studentship was added
arcaded. When the allied sovereigns visited this Uni­ in 1664 by the benefaction of William ThurV.one esq.
versity in 1814, the King of Prussia resided in the Sixty of the students were elected from the scholarsot
lodgings of the president, which were originally built Westminster School, the remaining 41 being nominated
at the close of the 16th century, while a new wing by the dean and canons in turn. Under the statutes
was added in 1689, and in 1783 repairs were made made by the University Commissioners of 1877 aD
to the north front. The whole of the president’s house, confirmed by the Queen in council in 1882, the founda­
except the wing added in 1689, was rebuilt in 1906. tion is hereafter to consist of a dean and six canons,
The college possesses a fine collection of plate, including body of students (equivalent to fellows), and compnswg
a rose water dish of 1493-4, given by the founder, a not more than fourteen non-official students (holding
silver gilt salt-cellar, dating from 4500, also given by seven years), nor more than fifteen official studen him, and a chalice and paten of pure gold, dated number of scholars (six being elected annually >
1507-8, supposed to have been used by the founder ; competition, and three from Westminster), sixc ®P '
the other specimens, dating from 1514 to 1736, include an organist, nine lay clerks and eight chonsters,
spoons with the owl badge of Hugh Oldham. Bishop of are now 26 students, 44 scholars and 49 es 11 1 .
Exeter; the ring of John Claymund, first president, The buildings of this society are so extensive and mag
1517-37; and the college seal, probably coeval with the ficent as to require a more than usuallyndetal tbe
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professorial Fellows will he the Corpus professors of Iroof of the gateway is vaulted and adorne