A Hand-book for Visitors to Oxford

Front Cover
J. Parker, 1875 - 287 pages
 

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 262 - OUR BRITISH ANCESTORS : WHO AND WHAT WERE THEY? An Inquiry serving to elucidate the Traditional History of the Early Britons by means of recent Excavations, Etymology, Remnants of Religious Worship, Inscriptions, Craniology, and Fragmentary Collateral History. By the Rev. SAMUEL LYSONS, MA, FSA, Rector of Rodmarton, and Perpetual Curate of St.
Page 25 - What! my lord, shall we build houses, and provide livelihoods for a company of monks, whose end and fall we ourselves may live to see ? No, no, it is more meet a great deal, that We should have care to provide for the increase of learning, and for such as who by their learning shall do good to the church and commonwealth.
Page 262 - THE CALENDAR OF THE PRAYER-BOOK ILLUSTRATED. (Comprising the first portion of the " Calendar of the Anglican Church...
Page 262 - CRUCIS NOSTR^E IN MONTE ACUTO ET DE DUCTIONE EJUSDEM APUD WALTHAM," now first printed from the Manuscript in the British Museum, with Introduction and Notes by WILLIAM STUBBS, MA, Vicar of Navestock, late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.
Page 255 - AN ATTEMPT TO DISCRIMINATE THE STYLES OF ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND, from the Conquest to the Reformation; with a Sketch of the Grecian and Roman Orders. By the late THOMAS RICKMAN, FSA Seventh Edition, with considerable Additions, chiefly Historical, by JOHN HENRY PARKER, CB, FSA , &c.
Page 258 - Engravings, 7s. 6d. Its Dedication. — Supposed date of Erection or Alteration. — Objects of Interest in or near. — Notices of Fonts. — Glass, Furniture, — and other details — Also Lists of Dated Examples, Works relating to the County, &c.
Page 256 - ... Richard II. to Henry VIII. (or the Perpendicular Style). With Numerous Illustrations of Existing Remains from Original Drawings. By the EDITOR OF "THE GLOSSARY OF ARCHITECTURE.
Page 262 - THE PRIMEVAL ANTIQUITIES of ENGLAND and DENMARK COMPARED. By JJA WORSAAE. Translated and applied to the illustration of similar remains in England, by WJ THOMS, FSA, &c. With numerous Illustrations. 8vo., cloth, 5s.
Page 213 - JOHN'S COLLEGE. THIS College was founded in 1555, by Sir Thomas White, Knt., Alderman of London. The original foundation consisted of a President, fifty Fellows and Scholars, one Chaplain, an Organist, six Singing Men, eight Choristers, and two Sextons. Under the Statutes made by the University of Oxford Commissioners, the foundation will hereafter consist of — 1.
Page 259 - WORKS PUBLISHED IN PHOTOZINCOGRAPHY. DOMESDAY BOOK, or the GREAT SURVEY OF ENGLAND OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, 1086 ; fac-simile of the Part relating to each county, separately (with a few exceptions of double counties). Photozincographed, by Her Majesty's Command, at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, Colonel SIR HENRY JAMES, RE, FRS, &c., Director. 35 Parts...

Bibliographic information