. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . mbers, as Tyndale the translator of the New Testament, Selden,Sir Matthew Hale, and Charles James Fox. The two very plain wings ofthe W. front, built in 1822 in the so-called classic taste then in vogue, haverecently been connected by a handsome Entrance Gateway, with new Halland other apartments, from designs by Mr. T. G. Jackson, from whose plansconsiderable extension is nearly completed (1903), comprising twenty-four setsof rooms, on a site occupying aVjout 4,320 square feet, at the opposite cornero
. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . mbers, as Tyndale the translator of the New Testament, Selden,Sir Matthew Hale, and Charles James Fox. The two very plain wings ofthe W. front, built in 1822 in the so-called classic taste then in vogue, haverecently been connected by a handsome Entrance Gateway, with new Halland other apartments, from designs by Mr. T. G. Jackson, from whose plansconsiderable extension is nearly completed (1903), comprising twenty-four setsof rooms, on a site occupying aVjout 4,320 square feet, at the opposite cornerof New College street, which leads to 12. New College,t founded June 30th, 1379, by William ofWykeham, Bp. of Winchester, and built on a plot of ground in angle of the city, the fortified wall being its boundary anddefence. It was opened with solemn religious ceremonial, April * Formerly adjoining Magdalen College, to which it was attached by the Waynflete, in 1487. See No. 17. + Originally designated St. Marys College of Winchester-in Oxenford. Aldens Oxford New College. 14th, 1386 ; and after a lapse of 500 years most of the buildings remain to this day as they were designed by the munificent founder.* The narrow unpretending entrance may be a little disappointing, Ourforefathers built in a different spirit from ourselves. They contrived a lowlyportal, reserving their best attractions for the interior ; and well did they know
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