. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . Leaving the Bridge, we now retrace our steps towards. 17. St. Mary Magdalen College, founded in 1458 by William Patten, of Waynflete, Lincolnshire, and built 1475-81. In 1448 the founder gathered together a body of students in the High street,probably where the New Schools (14a) now stand. Ten years atterwards,having obtained from King Henry VI possession of the ancient Hospital ofSt. John, he removed his society to the present spot. The majestic Tower(1492-1507) has been erroneously attributed to VVol
. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . Leaving the Bridge, we now retrace our steps towards. 17. St. Mary Magdalen College, founded in 1458 by William Patten, of Waynflete, Lincolnshire, and built 1475-81. In 1448 the founder gathered together a body of students in the High street,probably where the New Schools (14a) now stand. Ten years atterwards,having obtained from King Henry VI possession of the ancient Hospital ofSt. John, he removed his society to the present spot. The majestic Tower(1492-1507) has been erroneously attributed to VVolsey who was junior bursarat that time ; it is 150 feet high, and contains a musical ring of ten window tracery and other carved work was carefully restored in 1891, 1903.] D Aldens Oxford Guide. and a new stone figure of St. Mary, by Mr. C. Dressier, placed in the middlepinnacle on the East side. (See frontispiece.) The college buildings now form four quadrangles, covering an area of abouttwelve acres ; its grounds occupy nearly one hundred acres, compri-;in^ lawnsand gardens, the shaded JVuter IVa/ks beloved of Addison, and the G
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