Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . emporary record, that in a vault of brick, at the upper end of the quire of this church, lies St. Mary-the-Virgins Church, 45 Amy Robsart, the ill-fated heroine of Sir Walter Scotts body was conveyed to Oxford from Cumnor Hall, some threeor four miles distant, and was buried on Sunday, 22nd Sept., 1560,having lain in state at Gloucester Hall, now Worcester College (45). The picturesqueItalian porch withspiral columns waserected in 1637 byDr. Morgan Owen,chaplain to Over it isa statue of the
Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . emporary record, that in a vault of brick, at the upper end of the quire of this church, lies St. Mary-the-Virgins Church, 45 Amy Robsart, the ill-fated heroine of Sir Walter Scotts body was conveyed to Oxford from Cumnor Hall, some threeor four miles distant, and was buried on Sunday, 22nd Sept., 1560,having lain in state at Gloucester Hall, now Worcester College (45). The picturesqueItalian porch withspiral columns waserected in 1637 byDr. Morgan Owen,chaplain to Over it isa statue of the Vir-gin with the Childin her arms. Thiseffigy occasionedsuch offence to thePuritans of thatday, that it formedthe subject of oneof the articlesof impeachmentagainst the Arch-bishop. The porchwas admirably re-stored in 1865 bythe late Sir Gilbert Scott, under whose judicious direction thewhole structure was put into repair. The Porch, and indeed thewhole S. front, is in the autumn gorgeously festooned with Virginiacreeper, all aglow with crimson. The old Chapel adjoining the. THE PORCH. ST. M ARYTH E-VI PGI N S CHURCH. 46 Aldens Oxford Guide. N. side of the Chancel, for centuries the Congregation House ofthe University, was restored in 1871. The chamber over it wasoriginally the receptacle of the University library, until the roomover the Divinity School was built by Duke Humphrey (6). At the W. end of the Church an ancient and historic ale-house has recentlyundergone, at the skilful hands of Messrs. Wilkinson and Moore, architects, amost successful transformation into a dwelling-house, appropriately named11 St. Marys Entry. Passing this on our left we find ourselves in RadclifTe Square, a place occupied entirely by academicedifices, and singularly rich in grand and beautiful effects. On theE. side the buildings of All Souls (19) group themselves in pictur-esque combinations. On the W. extends the E. facade of BrasenoseCollege (22); on the N. is the Bodleian Library (6); on the
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