Brasenose college . ut not unpleas-ing. The large West window was gifted by PrincipalCawley in 1776, and on the north side there is amemorial window to F, W. Robertson of Brighton. Inthe ante-chapel a mural tablet with medallions haslately been inserted in memory of Walter Pater. Thereis no special value or interest in the Chapel are two pictures, one an old copy of SpagnolettosEntombment of Christ, and the other a copy ofPoussins Assumption of St. Paul. The handsomebrass eagle at the lectern was given by a T. L. Dummerin 1731. The two candelabra have only recently beenrestored
Brasenose college . ut not unpleas-ing. The large West window was gifted by PrincipalCawley in 1776, and on the north side there is amemorial window to F, W. Robertson of Brighton. Inthe ante-chapel a mural tablet with medallions haslately been inserted in memory of Walter Pater. Thereis no special value or interest in the Chapel are two pictures, one an old copy of SpagnolettosEntombment of Christ, and the other a copy ofPoussins Assumption of St. Paul. The handsomebrass eagle at the lectern was given by a T. L. Dummerin 1731. The two candelabra have only recently beenrestored to their present place, having in past time beenpresented by the College to Coleshill Church in Buck-inghamshire. The most precious possession is a pair ofchalices with pattens, which date from before theReformation. The place is a good example of an average Collegechapel, but in no way specially remarkable, and mostunlike the magnificent buildings of New College,Magdalen, or All Souls. The East window looks on the. From a pliotoi^raph by tin] [ Camera Club IXTEKIOR OF CHAPEL BUILDINGS AND PROPERTIES 85 RadclifFe Square, and there is said to be a beautifuleffect obtainable on summer evenings from the square,when the sun shines through both West and Eastwindows. But this is a sight which the present writerhas not had the good fortune to witness. III.—The Hall. The Hall remains much as it was at the is a high, well-proportioned building, with many ofits windows decorated with the arms of the foundersand benefactors. In the North window at the east endare portraits of Smyth and Sutton, and a face with agrotesque nose, of which the ornament above theCollege gateway may be a copy. The South windowover the dais has a history connected with it. In theearly years of the century Louis XVIII. of Francevisited Oxford and lunched in Brasenose Hall. So torecord that event so honourable to the Society by theerection of some appropriate monument, on April 26,1821, this
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