Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . GUY FAWKES to our right, we approach 3. The Divinity School, 1445-80 (open 9 to 5, fee id.)This beautiful room has long been used, as its name implies, forexercises for the University degrees in Divinity. Passing throughthe Proscholium (popularly called the Pig-market—a survivalof the base uses to which it was degraded in the latter part ofHenry reign), we enter by a finely moulded Perpendiculardoorway a noble room with arched stone roof, elaborately groinedin every bay, and adorned with bosse
Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . GUY FAWKES to our right, we approach 3. The Divinity School, 1445-80 (open 9 to 5, fee id.)This beautiful room has long been used, as its name implies, forexercises for the University degrees in Divinity. Passing throughthe Proscholium (popularly called the Pig-market—a survivalof the base uses to which it was degraded in the latter part ofHenry reign), we enter by a finely moulded Perpendiculardoorway a noble room with arched stone roof, elaborately groinedin every bay, and adorned with bosses rendered extremely in-teresting by their carved work, forming heraldic bearings, and a 8 Aldens Oxford Convocation House.—The Old Schools. 9 vast variety of elegantly composed monograms. The fine windows on either side were originally richly dight with glass of gorgeous hues; but these were destroyed by the reformers of Edward reign, when the whole building was allowed to fall into decay. Some exciting scenes were enacted here during the tragic reign of the 30th September, 1555, Latimer and Ridley were cited to appear in theDivinity School before commissioners appointed by Cardinal Pole, to answer for sundry erroneous opinions openly maintained by them in Oxford. In 1625the House of Commons met in the Divinity School, when driven from Londonby the ravages of the plague. Still later, during the Civil War, it was used as astorehouse and armoury. Towards the close of the 17th century the buildingwas completey restored by Sir Christopher Wren, who also opened a door onthe X. side for the accommodation of processions into the Theatre (see page 5).The pulpits shown in the engr
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