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Title: Alden's Oxford guide: with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Alden, Edward C
Subjects: University of Oxford
Publisher: Oxford : Alden
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which is at the same time not inharmonious with the more venerable buildings of the University. The interior affords a most interesting study in the development of 17th cent. English architecture, from the late or Jacobean Gothic of the medieval-looking Council Chamber to the full-blown and luxuriant Renaissance of the great Town Hall. The latter, which is of course the principal room, is approached by broad flights of steps through a finely vaulted and arcaded Entrance Hall. It is surrounded on three sides by a gallery, and has at its semi-circular east end an orchestra with grand Organ by Willis; it is elaborately decorated with reliefs, colour and gilding, and will seat nearly 2,000 persons. The Assembly Koovi occupies the middle portion of the grand West front, shown in our view. The chief feature of this noble apartment is its fine * For times of despatch and delivery of mails, &c., see Aldens Oxford Almanack, price 1d. New Municipal Buildings.
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Aldens Oxford Guide. Elizabethan chimneypiece surmounted by a minstrels gallery. The Council Chamber, as already suggested, is rich in traceried windows, stained glass, and oak panelling, and its ceiling is specially fine. In the Mayor s Parlour the architect has worked up some of the decorative carving from the old building; and in this, together with \\\t Sessions Court, Grand Jury Rwni, and Justices^Rj3>n, and several other apartments, he has distinguished himself by the extremely various and yet harmonious treatment of details of panelling, fire-places, ceilings, &c. On the ground floor, connecting with a spacious corridor, are offices for the City Engineer, Accountant, rate-collector, c\:c; the TownClerks offices occupying the house adjoining northward, which is now incorporated with the municipal buildings. The City Free Library (instituted 1854) now occupying the S. portion of the front (shown on the right of our view) was completed and o

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