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MAGDALENE COLLEGE, OXFORD.
Belovv these are shewn three of the four panels which fill up the spaces
between the niches. The first is merely architectural, having an ornament
of foliage placed in the centre; and the furthest panel on the opposite side,
in the work itself, is of a similar pattern. The next exhibits a rose, placed
upon a radiant sun; an heraldic device adopted by King Edward IV.
and others of his family, in commemoration of the appearance of three suns
in the sky, immediately conjoining into one, which are said to have been
seen before the battle at Mortimer’s Cross, near Ludlow, where Edward,
then Earl of March, obtained a great victory on Candlemas-day, 1461.* * * §
The other device is formed of lilies, disposed in form of a cross. A section,
and two portions of the hood-mould, f are shewn in the bottom part of the
plate. The hollow moulding, or casement, is filled with the lily, repeated in
a series of delicate sculpture. The same flower is also seen in the arms of
Waynflete, which appear on a shield in one of the spandrils of the arch. J
The shield is surrounded with the garter, inscribed with its appropriate
motto, the bishop of Winchester bearing the office of prelate of that most
noble order.
Plate IV. The choir of Magdalene college chapel consists of five bays, or
compartments, divided by slender buttresses, gradually reducing as they
ascend, and finished with pinnacles. There is a general correspondence
both in design and dimensions to the chapel of All Souls’ College, with
something more of simplicity in the details, § particularly in the windows,
which have their heads turned in simple pointed arches, instead of the
* Shakspeare alludes to this in the soliloquy of Richard, Duke 6f Gloucester, spoken with
reference to the triumph of his family in the exaltation of his brother Edward IV. to the crown :—
“ Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lower’d upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried!”
Richard III. Act I. Scene 1.
-j~ It is frequently termed a label, but hood-mould is the term used by the old masons. See
Glossary to “ Specimens of Gothic Architecture.”
| The bishop added three lilies on a chief to his family arms, taking the augmentation from
the arms of Eton College, in grateful acknowledgment of his former preferment. See “ Vetusta
Monum.” Vol. III.
§ See Plate III. of the Chapel of All Souls’ College.
MAGDALENE COLLEGE, OXFORD.
Belovv these are shewn three of the four panels which fill up the spaces
between the niches. The first is merely architectural, having an ornament
of foliage placed in the centre; and the furthest panel on the opposite side,
in the work itself, is of a similar pattern. The next exhibits a rose, placed
upon a radiant sun; an heraldic device adopted by King Edward IV.
and others of his family, in commemoration of the appearance of three suns
in the sky, immediately conjoining into one, which are said to have been
seen before the battle at Mortimer’s Cross, near Ludlow, where Edward,
then Earl of March, obtained a great victory on Candlemas-day, 1461.* * * §
The other device is formed of lilies, disposed in form of a cross. A section,
and two portions of the hood-mould, f are shewn in the bottom part of the
plate. The hollow moulding, or casement, is filled with the lily, repeated in
a series of delicate sculpture. The same flower is also seen in the arms of
Waynflete, which appear on a shield in one of the spandrils of the arch. J
The shield is surrounded with the garter, inscribed with its appropriate
motto, the bishop of Winchester bearing the office of prelate of that most
noble order.
Plate IV. The choir of Magdalene college chapel consists of five bays, or
compartments, divided by slender buttresses, gradually reducing as they
ascend, and finished with pinnacles. There is a general correspondence
both in design and dimensions to the chapel of All Souls’ College, with
something more of simplicity in the details, § particularly in the windows,
which have their heads turned in simple pointed arches, instead of the
* Shakspeare alludes to this in the soliloquy of Richard, Duke 6f Gloucester, spoken with
reference to the triumph of his family in the exaltation of his brother Edward IV. to the crown :—
“ Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lower’d upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried!”
Richard III. Act I. Scene 1.
-j~ It is frequently termed a label, but hood-mould is the term used by the old masons. See
Glossary to “ Specimens of Gothic Architecture.”
| The bishop added three lilies on a chief to his family arms, taking the augmentation from
the arms of Eton College, in grateful acknowledgment of his former preferment. See “ Vetusta
Monum.” Vol. III.
§ See Plate III. of the Chapel of All Souls’ College.