The Cathedral Church of Oxford. Percy Dearmer
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Percy Dearmer
The Cathedral Church of Oxford
A description of its fabric and a brief history of the Episcopal see
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066183899
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE HISTORY OF THE BUILDING.
CHAPTER IV. HISTORY OF THE FOUNDATION.
CHAPTER V. THE DIOCESE OF OXFORD.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE | |
Christ Church from the East | Frontispiece |
Arms of the See | Title |
The Roof of the Choir | 2 |
The Cathedral at the End of the Seventeenth Century | 5 |
Christ Church from the Garden of the Canon of the 2nd Stall, 1857 | 10 |
Christ Church in the Eighteenth Century | 11 |
The Tower and Spire | 29 |
Early Saxon Arches | 33 |
Plan of recently excavated Saxon Arches | 34 |
Conjectural Plan of Early Saxon Church | 35 |
Doorway of Chapter-House | 39 |
Corbel in Chapter-House | 40 |
Boss in Chapter-House | 41 |
Choir, from the Old Cemetery | 42 |
Tom Tower | 44 |
Western Entrance and Bell Tower | 45 |
Plan | 52 |
Early English Moulding | 54 |
Nave and Choir, looking East | 55 |
Pulpit | 58 |
Choir and Nave, looking West | 59 |
From the North Transept | 66 |
Clerestory Window in the South Transept | 69 |
Third Capital of the Choir | 72 |
Capitals of the Choir | 73 |
Tracery of the Roof | 77 |
Lady Montacute's Tomb | 91 |
Ornament from a Tomb | 95 |
The "St. Cecilia" Window | 99 |
Window in the Latin Chapel | 103 |
Section of the Interior before the Restorations | 107 |
The Exterior in 1857 | 113 |
The Interior before the Restorations | 123 |
Arms of the College | 136 |
THE ROOF OF THE NAVE. (FROM A DRAWING BY R. PHENÉ SPIERS, F.R.I.B.A.)
CHAPTER I.
THE HISTORY OF THE BUILDING.
The "Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford" has had a somewhat unfortunate history. Built for the small monastery of St. Frideswide, with no thought of any ampler destination, it was in the sixteenth century raised to the rank of a cathedral, just