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windows: holes in walls used to look out of and to provide light; usually these days the hole is filled with a sheet of glass.

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Pictures from Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes by Andrew Lang, M.A., sometime Fellow of Merton College, Oxford [1844 – 1912]; sixth edition, Seely & Co. Ltd., London, 1896.

There are some more pictures of Oxford done by Haslehust, in colour.

I am working on a transcription of this book. I found one online at worldwideschool.org but it lacks the images, and has many errors.

There is also an entry in the Nuttall Encyclopædia for Andrew Lang.

The Stone Pulpit at Magdalen College.

Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From a Drawing by A. Brunnet-Debaines.

Keywords: colleges, windows, towers, churches, creeper, people, dogs, entrances

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-04

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Old Episcopal Palace.

Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

from a Drawing by R. Kent Thomas.

Tudor houses with mullioned windows; I think that this building is not mentioned in the text.

Keywords: buildings, windows

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2008-08-04

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Niches at Oriel

Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From a Drawing by A. Brunet-Debaines.

Keywords: gothic, windows, entrances, statues, colleges

Places shown: Oriel College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-17

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The Muniment Room at Merton College

Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From a Drawing by R. Kent Thomas. (I think the Muniment Room was built to hold manuscripts, but I am not certain) “The time is the end of the fourteenth century. The forest and the moor stretch to the [...]

Keywords: entrances, colleges, windows

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-04

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