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

       [email protected]

      EAN 4064066183899

Table of Contents

       ILLUSTRATIONS.

       CHAPTER I. THE HISTORY OF THE BUILDING.

       CHAPTER II. THE EXTERIOR.

       CHAPTER III. THE INTERIOR.

       CHAPTER IV. HISTORY OF THE FOUNDATION.

       CHAPTER V. THE DIOCESE OF OXFORD.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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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.

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      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