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Screen. Continuing the walk the members duly noticed the new 
front of Exeter College in The Broad, the Sheldonian Theatre 
Kettel Hall, a dwelling-house built in 1615 by a President of 
Trinity of that name, and Sir John Vanbrugh’s handsome struc- 
ture of 1713, once the Clarendon Press, and the new Indian 
Institute. New College was hence soon reached and its Chapel 
and Cloisters, the work of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, in 
1386. The buildings of the first quad, and the groined gateways, 
hall and towers remain to this day as they were erected by the 
founder, and are the most interesting of Oxford sights. The 
Chapel, renowned for its Choral Services, has its windows on the 
South side Flemish, by Ruben’s scholars, on the North painted by 
Peckett, of York, in 1765-74. It possesses a gorgeous Reredos 
of many statues, the pastoral staff silver gilt of the founder, 
many brasses in the Ante-Chapel, and besides several windows of 
the date of Bishop Wykeham, an incongruous huge Western 
window, painted by Jervais in 1777 from cartoons of Sir Joshua 
Reynolds. 
The Members having walked round the beautiful gardens, 
surrounded by the ancient batilemented wall of the city, pro- 
ceeded to the interesting Norman Church of S. Peter in the East, 
and thence by Queen’s College and S. Edmund’s Hall to the fair 
College of S. Mary Magdalene. Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester, 
founded this College in 1457, in the troubled reign of Henry VI. 
It suffered terribly in’ Cromwell’s time, but has been well 
restored, although few of the ancient buildings remain. The 
Chapel was visited by the party, the quaint hieroglyphics in the 
cloistered quad, Addison’s Walk, and the herd of fallow deer in 
the President’s park. After this the new Schools in “The High ” 
were passed, and Merton College entered, with its fine Chapel 
built about 1300, and the ridiculous painted Eastern window 
therein exhibiting Scriptural Subjects in gilt frames. The other 
windows are, however, of the same date as the structure and are 
unique specimens of glazing of the Decorated period. After 
