. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . O ?! 3 ^ O £ o (CUJ I-z The Divinity Aldens Oxford Guide. we enter by a finely moulded Perpendicular doorway a noble room with arched stone roof, elaborately groined in every bay, and adorned with bosses rendered extremely interesting by their carved work, forming heraldic bearings and a vast variety of elegantly composed monograms. The windows on either side, once richly dight with glass of varied hues, were despoiled by the reformers of Edward VIs reign, when the whole building fell into dec
. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . O ?! 3 ^ O £ o (CUJ I-z The Divinity Aldens Oxford Guide. we enter by a finely moulded Perpendicular doorway a noble room with arched stone roof, elaborately groined in every bay, and adorned with bosses rendered extremely interesting by their carved work, forming heraldic bearings and a vast variety of elegantly composed monograms. The windows on either side, once richly dight with glass of varied hues, were despoiled by the reformers of Edward VIs reign, when the whole building fell into decay. Some exciting scenes were enacted here during the tratjic reign of the 30th September, 1555, Latimer and Ridley were cited to appear in theDivinity School before commissioners appointed by Cardinal Pole, to answer for* sundry erroneous opinions openly maintained by them in Oxford. In 1625the House of Commons met in the Divinity School, when driven from Londonby the ravages of the plague. Still later, during the Civil War, it was used asa storehouse and armoury. Towards the close of the 17th century the buildingwas comple
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