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Title: Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Alden, Edward C
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Publisher: Oxford : Alden
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n the western suburb, he connected the new see with his recently founded college t Christ Church is therefore an instance, without parallel, ofthe union of a cathedral and a collegiate foundation. Its Latin name being Odes ChrLti (not Collegium), it is never called a College, but is spoken of byits members as The House. A curious illustration of its mixed constitution.-, afforded by the fact that although the diocesan is styled Bishop of Oxford.one never hears of the Dean of Oxford or the Canons of Oxford, but they are always called Dean and Canons of Christ Chinch. The Cathedral is a very interesting architectural type of the transition period between the Norman and Early English styles. • It is now asserted that the true shrine of St. Frideswide was demolished at the Reformation, and that this tomb was built in memory of an unknown merchant and his wife. t The King died within a few weeks after its foundation, without having signed any statutes for the House. 62 Aldens Oxford Guide.
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CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL. FROM THE CLOISTERS- Reproduced from Cathedral Churches of England and Wales, by permission of Messrs. Cassell er Co, Christ Church Cathedral. 63 Its spire is one of the most ancient in England; and the beautiful vaulted roof of the Choir (said to have been added by Wolsey as some atonement for having pulled down fifty feet of the nave) is much admired. The E. end was restored in 1S71 by Sir G. G.Scott in harmony with the original design; and within the last few years, the whole of the interior has been greatly improved, the nave considerably extended westward, the Cloisters restored, and a new W. entrance opened from the Great Quadrangle (p. 67). On the S. side of the choir an Episcopal Throne has been erected at the cost of £1,000, as a memorial to the late Bp. Wilberforce; a life-like medallion portrait of this prelate is conspicuous among its profuse embellishment of wood-carving. The richly ornamented Lectern was presented by the Censors of the House, and the Bib

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