This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...and taking the first turn to the left, at a distance of a very few yards the eye is arrested by the facade of WADHAM COLLEGE. This College is named from the founders, Nicholas Wadham and Dorothy his widow, who, after her husband's death, carried out the design which he did. not live to complete. This college was built ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...and taking the first turn to the left, at a distance of a very few yards the eye is arrested by the facade of WADHAM COLLEGE. This College is named from the founders, Nicholas Wadham and Dorothy his widow, who, after her husband's death, carried out the design which he did. not live to complete. This college was built upon the site of the monastery of the Austin friars, during the years 1610--1613, the first stone having been laid on the 31st of July in the former year; and the first warden, Dr. Wright, admitted on the 20th of April, 1613. Of the monastic buildings nothing now remains: the windows of the chapel, indeed, from the exquisite taste and keepicg of style of their construction, were long thought to have been genuine Augustinian, but the book kept by the clerk of the works, still preserved in the college, bears the strongest evidence to the contrary, in exhibiting the expenses and time occupied in their erection. The buildings of this college are particularly uniform and pleasing, and, with one or two exceptions, in admirable taste throughout. Having admired the frontage, with its well-proportioned tower, the visitor will enter, by a gateway with an elegantly groined roof, a quadrangle of 130 feet square. On the opposite or eastern side of this are the chapel, hall, library, kitchen, &c. The remaining sides are occupied by lodgings for the Warden, Fellows, and other members of the college. The Chapel, as we have said above, exhibits great taste and purity of style in the character of its architecture; and the ante-chapel, although the windows here are not so good as in the chapel itself, has particularly light and lofty arches. The east end and ceiling were renewed by Mr. Blore, after an earlier school of architectural art, in 1832 and 1833. Th...
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