Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . f great interest. Adjoining is the Apodyterium,or robing-room, used also as the Chancellors Court-room : it contains fineportraits of Lords Eldon and Stowell. Returning through the Divinity School,we enter the fine Quadrangle of 5. The Schools, 1439, rebuilt 1613-18. Although the roomson the ground floor still retain over their doorways the names ofthe faculties, they have long ceased to be used for teachingpurposes; but the public examination of students was carried onhere until 1882, when the opening of the New Ex
Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . f great interest. Adjoining is the Apodyterium,or robing-room, used also as the Chancellors Court-room : it contains fineportraits of Lords Eldon and Stowell. Returning through the Divinity School,we enter the fine Quadrangle of 5. The Schools, 1439, rebuilt 1613-18. Although the roomson the ground floor still retain over their doorways the names ofthe faculties, they have long ceased to be used for teachingpurposes; but the public examination of students was carried onhere until 1882, when the opening of the New Examination Schools(14a) enabled the University to devote these rooms to the muchneeded enlargement of the Bodleian Library (6). Immediatelyfacing us on our entrance to this court is a picturesque bit ofRenaissance, the Schools Tower, late Gothic in general design,but ornamented with columns of the five orders of Roman , grouped in pairs,—Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, andComposite,—and a sculptured figure of James I. (See page 10.) 10 Aldens Oxford THE SCHOOLS (by permission) from Cassells Family Magazine, May, ii The Bodleian Library. 11 The architect of the tower was Thomas Holt, who died in 1624. It hasrecently undergone thorough and faithful restoration at a cost of over ^6,000. 6. The Bodleian Library {Bibliotheca Bodleiand) is enteredby a small doorway in the corner of this quadrangle. It isopen daily (with certain exceptions) from 9 till 5 in summer,closing earlier during the remainder of the year; the fee foradmission is 3^. each ; and readers may obtain free access to itstreasures on satisfactory recommendation. The most ancientportion of this library, over the Divinity School (3), was foundedby Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, son of Henry IV., and built1445-80. To this Sir Thomas Bodley added the E. wing in1610, and the W. wing was added some thirty years later. TheBodleian contains about half-a-million bound volumes, incl
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