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The facile and skilful architectural genius of Mr. Gilbert Scott has been for nearly three years past enriching' by renovation and addition, the buildings at Exeter College, Oxford. The new works for which he is directly responsible, consist of a new quadrangle, a chapel, and rector's lodgings, and a noble and effectively-proportioned library. Especially to be remarked is the entrance doorway of the house set apart for the rector —a rich composition in carving and moulding admirably executed. The drawing-room windows are adorned with tracery, and carry very pleasing balconies, with railings of wrought iron-work arranged in quatrefoiled circles. The chapel is the handsomest ecclesiastical edifice of the University, and is decorated with a noble ground roof of stone no less than 30 feet in span. Its height from the ground line to the ridge of the roof is 84 feet : to the summit of the vane 150 feet, and by its exquisitely-graceful and tapered fieche, this building has a prominent place among the unrivalled throng of collegiate towers and spires of the University of Oxford.
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