. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . s present incomplete state a woithy additiorvto the beauties of the High street. Mr. T. G. Jackson is the architect. Crossing the High street at St. Marys Church (20), we turndown a narrow lane just opposite, named Oriel-street, and find or>our left hand the building known for five centuries as 23. St, Mary Hall. The site was anciently occupied bythe parsonage of St. Mary-the-Viigins, presented in 1325 by KingEdward H to Oriel College (24), by which society it was converted Oriel CoIIeg:e. d:? into
. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . s present incomplete state a woithy additiorvto the beauties of the High street. Mr. T. G. Jackson is the architect. Crossing the High street at St. Marys Church (20), we turndown a narrow lane just opposite, named Oriel-street, and find or>our left hand the building known for five centuries as 23. St, Mary Hall. The site was anciently occupied bythe parsonage of St. Mary-the-Viigins, presented in 1325 by KingEdward H to Oriel College (24), by which society it was converted Oriel CoIIeg:e. d:? into a separate place of education in 1333. About the year 1451,Bedell Hall, founded in 1294, was also conveyed to the samecollege by the University, and added to the site. The buildingsconsist of a small quadrangle, on the N. side of which stand theChapel and Hall (1630-40), the latter now converted into aJunior Common Room for Oriel College (24). Among the famous men who studied in this house were Sir Thomas More(whose portrait after Holbein adorns[the Hall), George Sandys the poet, and the. DINING HALL, ORieL COLLEGE. martyred Bp. Hannington. After a separate existence of more than 500 years, Skininiery* is now again incorporated with its parent society adjoining,— 24. Oriel CoHe^e, founded by King Edward II, at the suggestion of his almoner, Adam de Brom, on the 12th April, 1326. The King bestowed on the society a large messuage known as La Oriole, whence the present name of the college is derived.* ? Oriol is an old French word meaning any portico, recess, or small room which wasmore private and better ornameuted than the rest of the building. It is derived from theLatin ««)fc/»7;;, ornamented with gold. 56 Alden*s Oxford Guide. The college was incorporated in 1603 by letters patent of KingJames I. The Hall^ built in 1637, has a charmingly picturesqueexterior, somewhat disfigured by recent necessary repairs. Itsentrance portico, approached by a flight of steps, and surmoun
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