. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . , and till 4 at other times. Visitors are admitted t)napplication to the officer in charge, and writing their names and addresses in thevisitors book. The Institute is entirely closed from Aug. i6th to Sept. 14th. Proceeding up Parks-road, we pass on the left St. Stephens House (7^),founded in 1876 for the training of candidates for Holy Orders, especially forthe work of Foreign Missions ; and on the right is the principal front of 8. Wadham College, founded by Nicho-las Wadham and Dorothy his wife, on
. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . , and till 4 at other times. Visitors are admitted t)napplication to the officer in charge, and writing their names and addresses in thevisitors book. The Institute is entirely closed from Aug. i6th to Sept. 14th. Proceeding up Parks-road, we pass on the left St. Stephens House (7^),founded in 1876 for the training of candidates for Holy Orders, especially forthe work of Foreign Missions ; and on the right is the principal front of 8. Wadham College, founded by Nicho-las Wadham and Dorothy his wife, on the siteof an old priory of Augustinian Friars : thefirst stone was laid on 31st July, 1610. Its buildings afford one of the finest examples of thisperiod : the Garden front especially being of unusualARMS OF WADHAM. merit. Through the stone-vaulted gateway we enter aspacious quadrangle ; on the E. side of which (facing us) is the Chapel withante-chapel, a fine well-proportioned structure : the glass in its east window isby Bernard Van Ling, 1620. The roof and tabernacle work aie modern. The University Museum. Gothic, cir. 1834. The new organ gallery and organ case are from designsby Mr. Jackson ; and there has recently been added an old Communion Tableof carved oak {temp. Eliz.) from Ilminster Church, Somerset, where Nicholasand Dorothy Wadham once worshipped. The Hall adjoining has a hand-some screen and lofty timber roof, and contains a large collection of portraits,the most recent of which are those of Bp. Johnson of Calcutta and the lateBp. Walsham How, presented by subscription in 1897 ; over the entrance aresculptured figures of the founders and King James I. Corresponding with theChapel, and communicating with the Hall by a cloister, is the Library. Theother sides of the quadrangle comprise lodgings for the warden, fellows, andundergraduates. The Garden is entered through a passage at the left-handcorner : though small comparatively, it possesses many beauties, and aff
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