. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . it on the east sideof the First Quadrangle, is a group of buildings until 1882 knownas St. Alban Hall (27), which was founded in 1230 byRobert de St. Alban, a citizen of Oxford, who gave it withanother tenement called Nun Hall to the nuns of houses were subsequently leased to Merton College : butat the dissolution of Littlemore nunnery for the founding ofWolseys College (29), St. Alban Hall became his property, andon his fall it came into the hands of Henry \Tn, from whomit ultimately
. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . it on the east sideof the First Quadrangle, is a group of buildings until 1882 knownas St. Alban Hall (27), which was founded in 1230 byRobert de St. Alban, a citizen of Oxford, who gave it withanother tenement called Nun Hall to the nuns of houses were subsequently leased to Merton College : butat the dissolution of Littlemore nunnery for the founding ofWolseys College (29), St. Alban Hall became his property, andon his fall it came into the hands of Henry \Tn, from whomit ultimately passed to Merton College in 1549. This Hall wasrebuilt in 1600, and further enlarged and improved in 1863 and1866. In its quadrangle is a quaint gabled bell-turret worthyof notice. By virtue of a statute made in i^sSi by the UniversityCommissioners, St. Alban Hall is now formally united withMerton College. On leaving Merton, we retrace our steps pastthe Chapel, remarking, the grotesque carving of the gargoyles 64 Aldens Oxford Guide. ^t^^i:^, *r -T- ^^^x ,^, i,*^-% ?-^S^-^«--iT» - f.
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