For one who has learnt the best of what he knows within Christ Church walls it has been very pleasant to gather these notes of the Cathedral's history and architecture. Moreover, I am less remorseful than I might be at adding to the world's overcrowded library, because certain recent discoveries in the Cathedral have thrown the best of the old books out of date, and made it necessary for some one to weave together the older and the later knowledge. My indebtedness, therefore, is not only to former labourers in this field, but especially to the author of these discoveries, Mr J. Park Harrison, who roused my enthusiasm in the old days, and now has most generously helped me with his advice, and allowed me to incorporate in these chapters the substance of his own papers. To these pamphlets I would refer any who wish to go to the fountainhead for the account of the investigations, and especially I may mention two: "The Pre-Norman Date of the Choir and some of the Stone-work of Oxford Cathedral," and the "Account of the Discovery of the Remains of three Apses at Oxford Cathedral" (Oxford: Frowde, 24 and 23 pp.). I must also express my thanks for the kindness and help of Professor York Powell, and of Mr W. Francis, the senior verger, and to Messrs Carl Norman & Co. of Tunbridge Wells, Mr W. Giles, Mr Park Harrison, and Mr R. Phené Spiers, F.R.I.B.A., for the loan of and permission to reproduce various drawings and photographs.

PERCY DEARMER.

CONTENTS.

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History of the Cathedral [3]
Description of the Exterior [27]
Spire and Tower [28]
On the North Side [32]
The Saxon Foundations [33]
Cloister [37]
Chapter House [39]
Bell Tower [43]
Tom Tower [44]
College Buildings [47]
Description of the Interior [49]
Nave [51]
Monuments of the Nave [57]
Organ [58]
Pulpit [58]
Tower [58]
Aisles of Nave and Transepts [62]
Glass in Aisles [63]
North Transept [65]
Glass in Transepts [67]
South Transept [67]
St. Lucy's Chapel [70]
Monuments of Transept and Chapel [71]
Choir [72]
East End [78]
Reredos [79]
High Altar [80]
South Choir Aisle [81]
Monuments [81]
North Choir Aisle [83]
Shrine of St. Frideswide [84]
Lady Chapel [88]
"Watching Chamber" [89]
Monuments in Lady Chapel [91]
Glass in the Aisles [97]
Latin Chapel [102]
Glass in Latin Chapel [105]
History of the Foundation [109]
St. Frideswide [109]
The Priory [114]
College and Cathedral [118]
The Diocese of Oxford [126]
Oseney [126]
List of the Bishops [128]

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]