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174 OXFORD. OXFORDSHIRE. [KELLY'.S • r-emaining windows are C'hiefly memorials t~ the Rev. was fixed at tw~lve. Scholarships and Exhibitions hav,e F. W. Bobertson M.A. incumbent of Trinity Chapel, been added at different t~mes, and inolude twenty-two Brighton, d. 15 Aug. 1853; the Rev. Richard Haringt.<Jn " Somerset" Scholarships, founded by Sarah Duchess D. D. principal r842-53, d. 13 Dec. 1853; J. Barlow, r85g, Dowager of Somerset, limit-ed in the first instance to and P. Haines, who fell at Lucknow, r859; in the ante persons educated at the grammar schools of Manchester chapel is a. monument to Robert Shippen D.D., F.R.S. and 1\Iarlborough and the cathedral school of Hereford: principal 1710·45; and one by Bacon, to William Cleaver, there are twenty valuable exhjbitions on, the foundation prinoipal I785-r8og, and succerssively Bishop of Chester of William Hulme e~sq. of Kearsley, in Lancashire, first (1787), Bangor (r8oo), and St. Asaph (r8o6), who died 15 found""ed in r6gr and finally r~modelled by the Charity J\Iay,r8r5: there are other monuments to Frodsham Hodson C(JI!Jlmi.ssioners a.nd approved' by the Queen in Council D. D. principal r8og-22, by Manning; the Very Rev. 26 Aug. 188r. These are tenable for four years, the Hugh Oholmondeley B.D. Dean of Chester (d. 1815), by seruior exhihitionsr being WQil'th £130 and the junior £8o Sir Francis Chantrey, a.nd to the Rev. James Smith, a year. Three clerical exhibitions were founded by the vice-principal, 1832-38 : both the chapel and library are Misses Colquitt, of Green Bank, in Lancashirl", in 1842, architecturally interesting as: exhibiting the result of and an open scholarship in r875 by Mrs. Jane Robinson an attempt to combine· tihe Classic- and Got.hic- styles. In in memory of tJhe Rev. John Watson M.A. some time 1894 the chapel underwent partial restQil'ation; the pedi Fellow o·f thiSI Colle,ge. The college presents to twenty. ments mer the doorway and windows, the pa;rapets one benefices and the. Ro.dborough (Glos.) lootureship, on the north side and the cornice being carefully re and Mr. Hulme's trustees have, in addition, the patron newed ; the roof was also re-C{)vered and srbrengthened; a.ge of twenty-nine benefices, to which they a;re bound to the whole work wars carried out under the direction of present thos~ wh() either rure· or have been exhibitioners T. G. Jackson esq. M.A., R.A., F.S.A. A. block of new on his foundation. The annua.l income of the college is buildings, oompleted in r886, from designs by the same estimated a.t £r2,68r 6s. sd. arohirect, ha.s taken the place of two slightly built and Cha.rles Buller Heberden M. A. principal; elected in I88g. not well-planned st!l'uctures previously standing in the Rev. Llewellyn John Mont.fort Bebb M.A. vice-principal. kitchen or cloister quadrangle. By their r€moval, and Alfred Joshua Butler M.A. bursar and lecturer. · that of some cottages and outbuildings, a new and Charles Henry Sampson M.A. tutor. spacious quadrangle, bounded on the east by the ante Frederick William Bussell M.A. tutor. chapel and cloist.ers, and on the west by the new wing, He:rber~ FTancis Fox M.A. tutor · which is set. a good way back, has been formed. The Francis James Wylie M.A.. lecturer & junior de:1n. buililings, which are 120 feet in length, and from 36 to 48 feet wide, consist. of four storeys, and contain 22 Corpus Ohristi College. sets of rooms for undergraduates, two large lecture rooms, and a spacious set of rooms for a Fellow. The Vi:>itor, The Bishop of Winche-ster. easrtern or principal front exhibits four gables, alternating Corpus Christi College, founded by a cha.rter, date<l with three semi-octagonal bays, with balustraded para· I :March, rsr6-7, of Richa.rd Fox, Bishop of Winchester pets, rising above the spring of the l'Oof, and intended to and. Lord P:civy Seal in the reign of Henry VIII. is ca.rry the staircases, which are disposed in the usual situated between Merton College on the east a.nd Christ collegiate manner ; the west front is much plainer in Church en the. west, and chiefly consists of one quad design, but a sjmilar style of treatment is preserved rangle, with an additional block of buildings on the south throughout. In order to gain space enough for the side of the chapel court, overlooking ~lerton fields and new building it was neceSBary to demolish the greater the Broad Walk; the principal front immediately faces part Dlf the well-known Amsterdam Court, which occupied the south side of Oriel College, and exhibits an em the site, and preserved the name of Amsterdam or battled faqade of thre.e storeys, wit1h a central ga.teway Broadgates. Ha.ll, one of the numerous academical halls to-wer of four stages ; over 11he gat~.way is a good oriel with which Oxford abounded during the Middle Ages, window, flanked and surmount.ed by rich canopied niches. and Nlipecially before the existence of colleges. During and a singnl:w piece of ~culpture representing angels 1887-9 patrt of the remaining buildings intended to cam~ bearing thEll Host, or Corpus Christi, in a monstrs.nce, plete bhe quadrangle wme ereded on the south side, with the aTms of the founder of the See of Winchester t:hns giving the college the advantage of an entirely new on either side. The quadrangle, ror feet by 8o feet in frontage immediately facing High street, the idea. Qf dimoosion, oompleted in I5I7 and embattled :tbout 16og, accomplishing which had been cherished, it appears, was hl\ightened in 1737 on the north and we.st sides by by the. college authoriti~s since the beginning of the the erecti.on of an additional storey; in 18c7 its buildings last century, and from that time up to 1810 a.t least wer~ faced with aSihlar, and in 1890 the ground level was three architects were con~;ulted on this project, and not uniformly lowocedJ one foot; in the centre is a. curious less than five designs for carrying it out produced and cylindrical dial, de1signed by Olnrles Turnbull M . .A. a. successively abandoned~ This block, also erected from fellow of the college, in 1581, and constitutiing a. perpetual deSiigns by Mr. Jackson, at a cost of about [12,ooo, calenda['; abov.e the oopital of the column is a pedestal comprise 3 new house for the principal, five sets of wit-h shields orf a,Tms, supporting a dwarf pyramidal fini~l, rooms for undergradua.t.es, and am. embattled gate,way surmounted by a. pelican in iher piety, the badge of tower, 62 feet in hei~ht, with porter's lod'ge', forming the the. founderr, renecwed in 18ga. On the eastern side of principal entrance into the new Amsterdam quad; the the. quadrangle is the hall, 50 feet by 25 feet, which has fa((3de, designed in the Late Perpendicular style, is of a. good La.te Perpendi~ular roof and north window, and two storeys, with four gables rising to the roof ridge, rubout 1700 was re-wainscotted and ceiled, and in 1857 and the first floor is effootively relieved by bay windows, restored under the direction of Mr. J. C. Buckler, arohi with elabQil'ately carved piel'Ced parapets'; at the south toot; it contains various portrn.irts, among which are east angle is a. fine corbelled-out oriel with six lights, and those of the founder, an original painting on panel ; Bishop an octagonal crocketed spire cal'Tied nearly up to the line Oldham, co-founde·r; Charles, rst bairon Tent.e:rden and. of the ridge; the tower, placed at the west end of Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St. David's, 1803, and of the front, was originaHy designed with a species of open Salisbury, 1825, both tutors of th~ college; Henry Phil· orown formed by arched flying buttresses springing from potts, Bishop of Exeter, I831-6g, and other~. A. statue the battlements and supparting a small lantern with of the founder stands in a niche on the south side of finial and vane, but this addition is for the present the quadrangle, and on tihe >ame side is the library, w'hich omitted ;_ over the gateway are carved, in an unusually was shortened at the~ ea.st end in 1676; it contains a la.rge size, the royal arms, crest and supporters, in allu remarkably fine coHection of curious printed brooks. and sion to the proper style of the foundation as "the King's manuscripts, a la.rg.e .collection of polit.ioaJ tracts from Hall and College of .Brasenose ; " it is intended at some the 15th to t\he I<}th oenturies, specimens of early Italian future time to contunue the building three bays west~ typography, and a vaJUB.ble. collect~on of Italian works. ward of the tower. The cottages which oocupied its bequeathed iu 1755 by L<>rd Cole:rruine. Ea.s.twa:rd of the siter contained a few traces of ancient work, and one of library, and separated from it only by a corridor, is the fire-places has been refixed in the basement of the the chapel, erooted in r5r7; in 1676-7 the inner chapel new building, where also are several fragments of 12th was lengthened westwards, t-he ante-chapel enla.Tged, tlhe and: 13th century woFk, found built into the cottages cha.peJ floor relaid in black and white marble, and a as o-rdinary walling-st<m~s.