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 GOTHIC BriLDixns of oxford. 30r) has here been spoken of, it is eitlicr wliolly laid aside, or the only remains of it arc to be found in the accidental inser- tion, as it were, of a traceried window or a pointed door, as if to sliow that some faint recollections of the once-honoured forms still Hngered in the minds of the architects, and caused them involuntarily to record their respect for it. It would be an interestino- investigation to trace the gradual awakening of the style from the deep slumber into which it had fallen, and to trace its gradual unfolding, step by step, until we have at length a more glorious rtnaissfDirr of the Gothic styles than we ever had of the Classic, and in this history no mean place would be assigned to the Architectural Society of Oxford. 0. Jewitt. The following list will form an useful appendix to the foregoing : — LATE GOTHIC BUILDINGS IN OXFORD, FROM THE REIGN OF KLIZABF.TII TO THK END OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. Eliz. 1571. The old buildings of Jesus College coniiiienccd. 1596. Library, St. John's College built. 1597. Sir Thomas Bodlcy commenced the repairs of T)iike Humphrey's Library, and added the new roof. 1600. Front of St. Alban Hall built. 1602. Nov. 8. Duke Humphrey's Library publicly re-opened after the repairs. Jas. I. 1610. July 16. First stone of the Bodleian Library and Pro- scholium laid. 1610. Great or main quadrangle of Merton built. 1610. July 31. First stone of Wadham College laid. 1612. West side of the lesser quadrangle of Lincoln College built. 1613. March 30. First stone of the Schools laid. 1613. April 20. Wadham College opened. 1617. Hall of Jesus College built. 1620. Hall of Trinity College finished. 1621. May 28. Chapel of Jesus College consecrated. 1624. Chapel of Exeter College built. Ch. I. 1626. Library of Jesus College built. 1628. Front of the house in St. Aldates, known as " Bishop King's House," built. 1630. Staircase of Christ Church Hall built. 1631. July 26. First stone of the Garden front and lesser qua- drangle of St. John's College laid. 1631. Sept. 15. Chapel of Lincoln College consecrated. 1634. West side of University College built.