Bodleian Library And Schools Quadrangle Including The Divinity School And The Convocation House

RADCLIFFE SQUARE 1. 1485 The Schools Bodleian Library and Schools Quadrangle including the Divinity School and Convocation House SP 5106 SE 9/147 12.1.54. I GV 2. RCHM 1. (1) Divinity School built 1424-1490. The master-masons were Richard Winchcombe in 1429 and Thomas Elkyn in 1439. The fan-vaulting was constructed in 1480-3, William Orchard being the master-mason, William Byrd was paid for the insertion of the North doorway in 1669. The upper storey was added by 1489 as Duke Humphrey's Library; It was restored and altered 1598-1602. The whole building was partially restored, again using Headington stone, in 1660 and also repaired in 1701-2. (For the sculptures of the vault, see Arch. Jnl LXXX (1914), 227. (2) The Schools Quadrangle. The West range, built 1610-12, contains the Arts End of the library on the upper storey and the Proscholium on the ground floor. The other three ranges were built 1613-24, John Akroyd and John and Michael Bently, being master-masons. Built originally in Headington freestone. Extensive restorations made in 1878-85 in Clipsham stone to the upper storey, pinnacles and the whole tower of the Five Orders. Further refacing of the interior, of the quadrangle on the South made in 1949. (3) The West cross-wing was built 1634-6 and its West window rebuilt in 1877. The upper storey forms the Selden End of the library and the lower storey contains the Convocation House and the Chancellor's Court.

All the buildings in Radcliffe Square form a group of the highest importance being the centre of the University of Oxford.

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