Historical Handbook And Guide To The City And University Of Oxford Noticing Every Point Of Interest In The Colleges Churches Museums Garde

Author : James J. Moore
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230142906
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book The Historical Handbook and Guide to Oxford written by James J. Moore and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...(See p. 38 for account of Peter Martyr's connection with Oxford.) The Shrine was regarded by superstition in bygone days to be unsafe for any monarch of England to approach. In reality it is not the Shrine at all, but only the watching-chamber of the monks who guarded the Shrine, dating from the reign of Henry VIII. On the floor of St. Frideswide's Chapel are several brasses and memorials of departed worthies. The windows have remains of ancient illuminated glass. The North A isle is next entered, in which visitors will observe the Lothian Window (central), presented by Marquis of Lothian, 1876, as a memorial to his brother, a student of the foundation, in magnificent Dr. John Underbill (New Coll.), third Bishop of Oxford, born at Crosa Inn, Cornmarket, 1546; 152 THREE CHRIST CHURCH STUDENTS DROWNED. illuminated glass, executed in a masterly manner. The subject represented is " St. Michael driving the Dragon and Fallen Angels from Heaven." The tomb of James Souch or Zouch (died 1503), a benefactor to the Houae in the fifteenth century, will be noticed in this part of the edifice. The west window, " Jonah under the Gourd at Nineveh," dates from circa 1630, and is supposed to be by Abraham Von Ligne. There is a memorial to Bishop James of Calcutta, near this spot, and memorial-windows to the Revs. Cyril Page and Fremantle. Passing into the South aisle, four memorial-windows (three to students drowned), will attract the visitors' notice: --1. (West), To Mr. Edward Denison, M.P. for Newark, whose name is cherished by the poor of London as a " household word," in consequence of his exhaustive labours for their amelioration. He died at Melbourne, Australia, 1870. The figures in the window are symbolical of...