Identifier: oxfordguidealden00alde (find matches)
Title: Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Alden, Edward C
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Publisher: Oxford : Alden
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view especially to the faculty of medicine, occupy five acres of ground, appropriated in 1231 for use as a Jews Burying Ground,* in lieu of a neighbouring piece formerly used by them, but granted by a charter of King Henry III. as a site for the Hospital of St. John, afterwards Magdalen College (17). They are furnished with many rare herbaceous and aquatic plants, indigenous and exotic; and contain several conservatories and aquaria, with a library and lecture rooms for the Professor of Botany. John Tradescant (see 2) was the first gardener here. The pleasant walk on the bank of the Cherwell leads to a gate conducting into Merton Fields and Christ Church Meadow. As we purpose visiting these hereafter (see nos. 28, 32), we now return to the High Street entrance; noticing on our way the fine proportions of Magdalen Tower, which directly faces us. * A very large number of Jews were resident in Oxford in mediaeval times, but they were expelled at the end of the 13th century. 30 Aldens Oxford Guide.
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MAGDALEN COLLEGE, FROM THE BRIDGE Magdalen College and Bridge. 31 It will be well worthwhile to get a good general view of the exterior of Magdalen College before proceeding to a closer inspection: and this we shall best do by walking a few paces to the right, on to Magdalen Bridge, which here spans two branches of the Cherwell, a tributary of the Thames, and was in former days the entrance to Oxford by coach from London.* Magdalen Bridge (built in 1779) was widened in 18S2-J from the designs of Mr. W. H. White, M. Inst. C.E., Engineer to the Oxford Corporation. The width of the old bridge was 26 ft. 6 in. inside the parapets, with a carriage-way of 18 ft. The width of the added portion is 20 ft., making the present width 46 ft. 6 in. inside the parapets, with a carriage-way of 32 ft. The new S W. elevation is an exact copy of the original masonry; so that the beauties of the bridge are retained, and greatly enhanced by its improved proportions, while the widening has opened up a view of

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