[250] See, however, the [note at the end of this chapter].
[251] Boase, p. 48.
[252] Sir Gilbert Scott is convinced that this is the original design, and no alteration. However, Dr. Ingram should be read (at p. 18 of his Memorials of Oxford), where he asserts a Norman superposition of the upper arches, and the Saxon construction of the lower shafts up to the half-capitals. His writings are founded on careful personal study of the structure in his time.
[253] The hall staircase, with its palm-shaped column (which is, in fact, more like a banyan-tree, as it is virtually a pendant from the vaulted roof), is the principal architectural addition of the seventeenth century; and, with Wadham College, is its most beautiful work in Oxford.
[254] The lower portion only; the upper part, containing the great bell (“Great Tom”), is Wren’s.
[255] Late in Elizabeth’s reign; confirmed by private Act of Parliament, A.D. 1601.
[256] The organ must have been placed between the nave and choir, in the old order so well remembered and regretted by old Christ Church men, who must still acknowledge the great improvement of these latter days.
[257] John Cottisford, Rector of Lincoln College; not the Bishop of Lincoln ordinary of the University, and executioner of Clark.
[258] John London, Warden of New College; who, however, behaved with sense and kindness during the later proceedings of Wolsey’s persecution.
[259] See Wood’s City of Oxford (edit. Clark), vol. ii. p. 220. Twenty shillings was paid for its conveyance from Oseney to Christ Church in Sept. 1545, with the rest of the peal (ibid. p. 228). Their names are contained in the following hexameter; and many Latin verses of equal melody have been composed in their immediate vicinity—