Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . Mr. Arnolds work, Oxford and Cambridge:— Look at our recent history : Lords Elgin and Dalhousie, Sir George CornewallLewis, [the] Sir Robert Peel, Canning, and Mr. Gladstone, are all Christ Churchmen. Among the statesmen of the past we may name Godolphin, Nottingham,Arlington, Wyndham, Carteret, Bolingbroke, Grenville, Lyttelton, might construct a good portion of the history of England out of the livei 68 Aldens Oxford Guide. of these great men. Perhaps the foremost name of Christ Church worthies willb
Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . Mr. Arnolds work, Oxford and Cambridge:— Look at our recent history : Lords Elgin and Dalhousie, Sir George CornewallLewis, [the] Sir Robert Peel, Canning, and Mr. Gladstone, are all Christ Churchmen. Among the statesmen of the past we may name Godolphin, Nottingham,Arlington, Wyndham, Carteret, Bolingbroke, Grenville, Lyttelton, might construct a good portion of the history of England out of the livei 68 Aldens Oxford Guide. of these great men. Perhaps the foremost name of Christ Church worthies willbe con-ideied to he that of John Locke. And then there are such men as MenJon>on and Sir Philip Sydney among poets, and Casaubon and Uaisford amongscholars John and Charles Wesley, the famous leaders of the religiousrevival of last century, were members of the House ; and the late Dr. Puseywas for more than half-a-century one of the Canons in residence. We now retrace our steps into the Great Quadrangle, and quit the precincts of Christ Church by the grand gateway under. WEST FRONT OF CHRIST CHURCH. 31. Tom Tower,* so called because containing GreatTom, a bell formerly belonging to Osney Abbey, but recast in 1680,and weighing nearly 18,000 lbs. It may be seen on application tothe porter and payment of a fee of 2d. Every night at Tom tolls a curfew of 101 strokes, as a signal for the closing of collegegates. The E?itra?ice Gateway, well worthy of its old name, TheFaire Gate, was erected to the height of the two smaller towers by * Should the visitor, by preference or chance, have entered Christ Church by Tomgate, he will find it necessary to reverse the order of the description, beginning with on this page, and tracing back to No. 2b on page 60. Christ Church.—Folly Bridge. 69 Cardinal Wolsey, whose statue is over the gateway j but the Bell-tower was added by Sir Christopher Wren, about 1682. Beneath the noble archway let us turn to observe the very striking effe
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