Wat een weergaloos leuke, mooie, interessante stad.
(Om te onthouden voor de volgende keer: parkeergarage Gloucester Sq)
Ik ben geen fan van Harry Potter, maar wel van (Endeavour)Morse en Lewis.
Die konden ook elk moment de hoek om komen.
Jacky mocht natuurlijk niet mee naar binnen, maar bij de Bodleian Library was dat geen enkel probleem.
"I'll take care of her." En zo geschiedde.
New College is one of the constituent colleges of the Unversity of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham, the full name of the college is St Mary's College of Winchester in Oxford. The name "New College", however, soon came to be used following its completion in 1386 to distinguish it from the older existing college of St. Mary, now known as Oriel College.
In 2017, the college ranked first[ in the NorringtonTable, a table assessing the relative performance of Oxford's undergraduates in final examinations. Historically, it has been ranked highly. It has the 3rd highest average Norrington Table ranking over the previous decade. The college is between Holywell Street and New College Lane (known for Oxford's Bridge of Sighs), next to All Souls College, Harris Manchester College, Hertford College, The Queen's College and St Edmund Hall. The college's sister college is King's College, Cambridge.
The college is one of the main choral foundations of the University of Oxford. The college choir is regarded as one of the leading choirs of the world, and has recorded over one hundred albums; it has been awarded two Gramophone Awards.
Like many of Oxford's colleges, New College admitted its first mixed-sex cohort in 1979, after six centuries as an institution for men only.
The hall is the dining room of the college and its dimensions are eighty feet by forty feet (24 m × 12 m). In his charter, Wykeham forbade wrestling, dancing and all noisy games in the hall due to the close proximity of the college chapel, and prescribed the use of Latin in conversation.
The panelling was added when Archbishop Warham was bursar of the college. The marble flooring replaced the original flooring in 1722. The open oak roof had been replaced by a ceiling at the end of the 18th century, and little is known of it. It was not until the Junior Common Room offered £1000 to restore the hall roof that work began on the roof seen today; this was in 1865 under the architect Sir Gilbert Scott. The windows were replaced at the time with painted glass and the portraits moved to a higher level. The hall underwent a major restoration project and reopened in January 2015.
Ik kan niet alle foto's uploaden naar mijn blog.
Het zijn er bijna honderd, dus klik op mijn ALBUM
en wandel mee door de geschiedenis van deze unieke stad.
Want Oxford ruikt anno 2019 nog steeds naar de 14e eeuw.
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