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ALL SO'ULS 9 COLLEGE, OXFORD.
the professional aid of the most celebrated architect of the day for effecting
this delicate task.*
A new roof was then erected ; the interior of the chapel was cleared of some
modern furniture of incongruous style, and the whole repaired and fitted up
in the manner in which it now appears. Still, however brilliant may be the
general effect, the admirers of ancient art cannot but lament the many viola-
tions of that pure style which characterises the architecture of Wykeham.
A few ornamental parts have been here selected from the western gable of
the chapel; see Plate II. These seem to require no further description than
the references given with the different figures on the Plate.
PLATE, No. 10 — 13.
ALL SOULS’ COLLEGE, OXFORD.
Founded A.D. 1437.
The noble example of William of Wykeham was followed with equal liberality
by Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the foundation of All Souls’
College.f This prelate was far advanced in years when he commenced his
college: he had been personally acquainted with Wykeham, and a partaker
of his bounty in his youth, having been educated at Winchester and New
College.
The foundation was laid February 10, 1437, and the warden and fellows
entered the new buildings in 1442, in which year the chapel was consecrated,
although the whole structure of the college was not complete till 1444.
* The late Mr. James Wyatt, who about the same time made great repairs and alterations
in the cathedrals 'Of Salisbury, Hereford, and Liehfield; and afterwards at Durham.
f He was born about the year 1362, and, after completing his studies, passed through various
ecclesiastical preferments with great credit, and was made Bishop of St. David’s in 1407; from
wlience he was advanced to the metropolitan chair of Canterbury in 1414. His arehitectural works,
and liberal endowments for learning and charity, were scarcely inferior to those of the illustrious
Wykeham. The cathedral of Canterbury was much adorned by him; he also founded a library
there; he contributed to the builaing of Rochester bridge, and of the church at Croydon, in Surrey.
The palace at Lambeth was much enlarged and beautified by him. At Higham Ferrars, co. North-
ampton, the place of his birth, the archbishop built and endowed a college, attached to the parochial
church. And at Oxford, he erected a small college for seholars of the monastic order of Cistercians,
before his foundation of All Souls’ College. This eminent prelate died in the year 1443, and is
buried under a sumptuous monument in Canterbury Cathedral.
ALL SO'ULS 9 COLLEGE, OXFORD.
the professional aid of the most celebrated architect of the day for effecting
this delicate task.*
A new roof was then erected ; the interior of the chapel was cleared of some
modern furniture of incongruous style, and the whole repaired and fitted up
in the manner in which it now appears. Still, however brilliant may be the
general effect, the admirers of ancient art cannot but lament the many viola-
tions of that pure style which characterises the architecture of Wykeham.
A few ornamental parts have been here selected from the western gable of
the chapel; see Plate II. These seem to require no further description than
the references given with the different figures on the Plate.
PLATE, No. 10 — 13.
ALL SOULS’ COLLEGE, OXFORD.
Founded A.D. 1437.
The noble example of William of Wykeham was followed with equal liberality
by Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the foundation of All Souls’
College.f This prelate was far advanced in years when he commenced his
college: he had been personally acquainted with Wykeham, and a partaker
of his bounty in his youth, having been educated at Winchester and New
College.
The foundation was laid February 10, 1437, and the warden and fellows
entered the new buildings in 1442, in which year the chapel was consecrated,
although the whole structure of the college was not complete till 1444.
* The late Mr. James Wyatt, who about the same time made great repairs and alterations
in the cathedrals 'Of Salisbury, Hereford, and Liehfield; and afterwards at Durham.
f He was born about the year 1362, and, after completing his studies, passed through various
ecclesiastical preferments with great credit, and was made Bishop of St. David’s in 1407; from
wlience he was advanced to the metropolitan chair of Canterbury in 1414. His arehitectural works,
and liberal endowments for learning and charity, were scarcely inferior to those of the illustrious
Wykeham. The cathedral of Canterbury was much adorned by him; he also founded a library
there; he contributed to the builaing of Rochester bridge, and of the church at Croydon, in Surrey.
The palace at Lambeth was much enlarged and beautified by him. At Higham Ferrars, co. North-
ampton, the place of his birth, the archbishop built and endowed a college, attached to the parochial
church. And at Oxford, he erected a small college for seholars of the monastic order of Cistercians,
before his foundation of All Souls’ College. This eminent prelate died in the year 1443, and is
buried under a sumptuous monument in Canterbury Cathedral.