. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . Brasenose College. 53. 54 AIden*s Oxford Guide. Our view, from -within the first Quadrangle, gives a much better idea of theoriginal proportions of the l)uildings than the East front, where the rehitiveheight of the tower is diminished by a third storey, constructed in the reign ofJames I. The Hall, which retains its primitive form, is entered on the Southside of the quad, b}- a curious shallow porch, over which are i6th cent, bustsof Alfred the Great and Johannes Erigena, a Scot, who is said to have l

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. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . Brasenose College. 53. 54 AIden*s Oxford Guide. Our view, from -within the first Quadrangle, gives a much better idea of theoriginal proportions of the l)uildings than the East front, where the rehitiveheight of the tower is diminished by a third storey, constructed in the reign ofJames I. The Hall, which retains its primitive form, is entered on the Southside of the quad, b}- a curious shallow porch, over which are i6th cent, bustsof Alfred the Great and Johannes Erigena, a Scot, who is said to have lecturedin Little University Hall on this site, 882. It contains portraits of thefounder, also of Dr. liurton, author of the Anatomy of Melancholy, andothers. The Library forms the more modern portion of the front facmgKadcliffe Square, and with the Chapel which adjoins it, both attributed to SirChristopher Wren, affords an interesting example of the combination of somecharacteristics of medi;vval architecture with classic details. The Chapel, 1668, has a fine fan-tracery roof, and its general effect is go

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