. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . t, of Prestbury in Cheshire. Many scholarships and exhibitions have been added by subsequent benefactors. Henry VTIIs charter, enfithng this foundation The Kings Hall and College of Brasenose, is dated 15th January, 1512 ; but the buildings occupy the site of older academic Halls. One of these was called Little University Hall, in contradistinction to • ;Mickle University Hall (see No. 18); another, of the 13th cent., called Brazen-nose Hall, is said to have occupied the site of a brasen-hus or brewhou
. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . t, of Prestbury in Cheshire. Many scholarships and exhibitions have been added by subsequent benefactors. Henry VTIIs charter, enfithng this foundation The Kings Hall and College of Brasenose, is dated 15th January, 1512 ; but the buildings occupy the site of older academic Halls. One of these was called Little University Hall, in contradistinction to • ;Mickle University Hall (see No. 18); another, of the 13th cent., called Brazen-nose Hall, is said to have occupied the site of a brasen-hus or brewhouse. The original knocker, carried away to Stamford by rebellious students in 1334, was recovered in 1890 and placed in the Hall. The representation of the brazen ?iose over the old entrance-gate was probably added at a much later date, when punning rebuses of this kind were in fashion. The Gateway To7ve?; completed in 1520, was altered in the 17th cent., but faithfully restored by the late ]Mr. Buckler. ? For a handy Key to these numbers, see Ntnnerical Index on page facing the Brasenose College. 53
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