The Martyrs' Memorial, Taylor Institution, and Randolph Hotel, Oxford, 1868. View of the Taylorian institute, '...the Martyrs' Memorial and St. Mary Magdalene's Church, on the left, with the Randolph Hotel and the opening of Beaumont-street [centre]...This newly-established hotel [is] surely one of the best-planned and best-managed in the kingdom, with its spacious with the completeness of its accommodation, including a conservatory for smoking and the ladies' own coffee-room, a boon to the Martyrs' Memorial [is] a beautiful monument, designed after the Eleanor Cross o
The Martyrs' Memorial, Taylor Institution, and Randolph Hotel, Oxford, 1868. View of the Taylorian institute, '...the Martyrs' Memorial and St. Mary Magdalene's Church, on the left, with the Randolph Hotel and the opening of Beaumont-street [centre]...This newly-established hotel [is] surely one of the best-planned and best-managed in the kingdom, with its spacious with the completeness of its accommodation, including a conservatory for smoking and the ladies' own coffee-room, a boon to the Martyrs' Memorial [is] a beautiful monument, designed after the Eleanor Cross of Waltham, to commemorate the deaths of Archbishop Cranmer and Bishops Ridley and Latimer, within a few yards of this the left hand, at the corner of a highly imposing range of buildings in the Grecian style of architecture, with Ionic pillars and deep cornices, and with statues and classic urns upon the roofs. One part of this is the Taylorian institute, founded by Sir Robert Taylor's bequest and attached to the University, for the teaching of the chief modern European languages'. The Martyrs' Memorial was erected in 1841 in memory of three Protestant martyrs who were burnt at the stake in Broad Street in 1555/6. From "Illustrated London News", 1868.
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