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Title: Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Alden, Edward C
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Publisher: Oxford : Alden
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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on of late-gothic and Renaissance, affords an excellent example of Mr. T. G.Jacksons work. Our illustration (p. 28) shows the N. front, facing High street. It comprises a grand Entrance Hall, from which there are approaches to the spacious Examination Rooms, which occupy the upper floor of the quadrangle. These magnificent apartments were first utilised for the purposes of public assembly rooms on the first of May, 1S83. when H.R.H. the Prince of Wales attended a concert and conversazione in aid of the Royal College of Music. The mosaic flooring of the entrance hall, the choice marble columns of the vestibules, and the gorgeous Grand Staircase, as well as the decorative carving throughout, will repay careful examination. Over the entrance portico are two panels carved in relief, representing the examination of an undergraduate, and the ceremony of conferring a degree. The E. front is now completed; the clock tower is a strikingly original composition, and the whole building, seen from the corner
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Magdalen School.—Botanic Gardens. 29 of King street, is very effective. The picturesque gabled house at the E. end of the principal front was added in 1888 to provide room for the Delegacy of Non-Collegiate students. Close by stood formerly the East Gate of the City; and just opposite is Long-Will-street, bounded on one side by an embattled wall enclosing the fine elms of Magdalen Grove (see page 32). (Should the visitor have time to pursue this direction a short distance, hewill be gratified by an inspection of the ancient Church and picturesque Cemetery of Holy Cross, Holywell (14^). The foundation of the Church is of remote antiquitv, but the chancel arch is the only remaining evidence of its date. N. of the church is the Oxford Penitentiary, occupying part of theold manor-house, with additional buildings. Thence a newly laid-out road leads W. to Mansfield Coll. (75) and to the Park and Walks mentioned on page 19.) At the corner is a modern structure in the Perpendicular style, 15. Ma

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