. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . servedthe foundation stone of Wolseys College at Ipswich, 1528. Through a passage close to the Chapter House, access is gained to a smallburial-ground. Here, just beneath her memorial window, is the simple graveof Edith, daughter of the late Dean Liddell, and here he was himself laid torest on 22nd Jan., 1898. His grave is marked Vjy a Cornish granite cross ; andthere is a tablet to his memory at the E. end of the S. aisle. The restoration ofthe Cloister was completed in 1899 : among its carved bo
. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . servedthe foundation stone of Wolseys College at Ipswich, 1528. Through a passage close to the Chapter House, access is gained to a smallburial-ground. Here, just beneath her memorial window, is the simple graveof Edith, daughter of the late Dean Liddell, and here he was himself laid torest on 22nd Jan., 1898. His grave is marked Vjy a Cornish granite cross ; andthere is a tablet to his memory at the E. end of the S. aisle. The restoration ofthe Cloister was completed in 1899 : among its carved bosses are portraits ofthe late Queen, the Chancellor, the late Bp. Stubbs, and the present Bp. Paget. Christ Church. 73 We now pass beneath the Belliy Tower, completed in iS79lor the receptionof the sweet-toned bells frcm the Cathedial tower: seven of these were origii ally-in Osney Abbey, three were added later, and two nioie were given in the grand Staircase, we admiie ihe elei^ant fan-iiactiy of ihestone roof ( 1640), supporltd ly a sini^le pillar, and enter. DINING HALL, CHRIST CHURCH. 30. Christ Church Hall, the grandest of all medievalHalls in the kingdom, save that at Westminster. (Fee, 2d.) Its length is 115 ft., breadth 40 ft., height 50 ft. Its lofty roof (dattd 1529 ;repaired after fire, 1720) is of Irish tak, decorated with arnjorial bearings. Y4 Alden*s Oxford Guide. In this room a banquet was given to Henry VIII in 1533; dramatic repre-sentations were witnessed here by Elizabeth, James I, and Charles I ; andhere in 1644 the latter monarch assembled those me»ibers of Parliament whorem-iined faithful to his failing cause. The dais or high table at the upper endof the room is lighted on the^S. side by a large and splendid oriel window,recently filled (by Messrs. Eurlison & Grylls) with exquisitely wrought full-lengthportraits of Cardinal Wolsey, Sir Thomas More, Erasmus, Earl Surrey, , Dean Colet, Linacre, and Lily. The series wa
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