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NEW CQLLEGE, OXFORD,
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Plate I. shews the external elevation, with half the plan, and half of the
tracery on the lower parts.
Plate II. gives a perpendicular section, shewing the projection of the
window from the wall, its elevation above the floor of the chamber, and the
mouldings of the inner arch; with some details which need no explanation.
PLATE, No. 8, 9.
NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD.
Founded A.D. 1379.
The founder of this college, William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester,
was the most celebrated person of his age for the practice of architecture,
of which he left some most noble monuments.* He was no less eminent for
his munificent foundations for the encouragement of piety and learning, of
which this college was the chief. Its buildings undoubtedly exceeded those
of any college previously erected, and served as models for some others of
later institution. The foundation was laid in 1380, and the society made
their solemn entrance into the new College of St. Mary in 1380 ; but some of
the buildings were finished several years later. Unfortunately, successive
modern additions and alterations, made with more regard to convenience
than taste, have obliterated the original style of the greater part of the
ancient buildings. The cloisters remain entire, as they were finished A.D.
1400, when they were consecrated as a cemetery for the deceased members
of the college. The architecture of these cloisters is plain, but of a very
good style ; they surround a quadrangular area, and are roofed with timber,
framed in arched ribs.
Plate I. shews two compartments with a plan and section.
The chapel is a noble and finely proportioned structure, on which the
pious founder spared no expense to render it worthy of its sacred purpose.
It suffered considerable injury during the civil war, and was much disfigured
by the repairs that were afterwards made, without attention to the proper
style of architecture. But about forty years since a complete restoration of
its pristine beauty was determined upon by the collegiate body, who called in
* Particularly the castles of Windsor and Queenborough ; the nave of Winchester Cathedral,
in which he lies buried within a beautiful chantry; and two colleges of his own endowment, this
at Oxford, and another at Winchester.
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Plate I. shews the external elevation, with half the plan, and half of the
tracery on the lower parts.
Plate II. gives a perpendicular section, shewing the projection of the
window from the wall, its elevation above the floor of the chamber, and the
mouldings of the inner arch; with some details which need no explanation.
PLATE, No. 8, 9.
NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD.
Founded A.D. 1379.
The founder of this college, William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester,
was the most celebrated person of his age for the practice of architecture,
of which he left some most noble monuments.* He was no less eminent for
his munificent foundations for the encouragement of piety and learning, of
which this college was the chief. Its buildings undoubtedly exceeded those
of any college previously erected, and served as models for some others of
later institution. The foundation was laid in 1380, and the society made
their solemn entrance into the new College of St. Mary in 1380 ; but some of
the buildings were finished several years later. Unfortunately, successive
modern additions and alterations, made with more regard to convenience
than taste, have obliterated the original style of the greater part of the
ancient buildings. The cloisters remain entire, as they were finished A.D.
1400, when they were consecrated as a cemetery for the deceased members
of the college. The architecture of these cloisters is plain, but of a very
good style ; they surround a quadrangular area, and are roofed with timber,
framed in arched ribs.
Plate I. shews two compartments with a plan and section.
The chapel is a noble and finely proportioned structure, on which the
pious founder spared no expense to render it worthy of its sacred purpose.
It suffered considerable injury during the civil war, and was much disfigured
by the repairs that were afterwards made, without attention to the proper
style of architecture. But about forty years since a complete restoration of
its pristine beauty was determined upon by the collegiate body, who called in
* Particularly the castles of Windsor and Queenborough ; the nave of Winchester Cathedral,
in which he lies buried within a beautiful chantry; and two colleges of his own endowment, this
at Oxford, and another at Winchester.