Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . re,within a stones throw of the High streetof the city, deer are quietly browsingunder huge old elms with their cawingrooks, as though the haunts of men weredistant and forgotten. As we approach the college, we shalladmire the good taste displayed in theimportant additions recently completedby Messrs. Bodley and Garner, formingthe Quadrangle of St admir-able harmony with the ancient buildings. We enter Magdalen through thenew porters lodge, adjoining thenew Entrance Gate, and find our-selves in the old Q
Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . re,within a stones throw of the High streetof the city, deer are quietly browsingunder huge old elms with their cawingrooks, as though the haunts of men weredistant and forgotten. As we approach the college, we shalladmire the good taste displayed in theimportant additions recently completedby Messrs. Bodley and Garner, formingthe Quadrangle of St admir-able harmony with the ancient buildings. We enter Magdalen through thenew porters lodge, adjoining thenew Entrance Gate, and find our-selves in the old Quadrangle ofSt. John Baptist. In its coiner is a curious ancientPulpit of stone, from which a sermonopen-air pulpit, m«GDalen. was formerly delivered annually on Baptists Day to a congregation assembled in the quadrangle, the groundbeing strewn with rushes and gra-s, and the buildings dressed with green boughs,in commemoration of the preaching of the Baptist in the Wilderness. Thecustom fell into disuse about 1750, and the sermon is now preached in the St. Mary Magdalen College. 33
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