“This window, with some others, was taken down during the Civil War, buried for safety by a member of the family, and put up again at the Restoration. The Bishop is represented standing vested in a jewelled cope of cloth of gold, and mitre, a pastoral staff in his gloved hand. In the background, among the trees, is a picture of Oseney Abbey in its already ruined condition (c. 1630), drawn without much feeling for its architecture, but of great value as almost the only picture of the place we possess. The western tower was the first home of what are now the Christ Church bells. Three coats-of-arms (being those of the Bishop, impaled with the Abbey of Oseney and the See of Oxford) complete the richness of what is a very good example of Seventeenth Century _painted_ glass, in the strict sense of the word.”--(P. D.) South of the South Transept the slype, a vaulted passage including part of the transept, leads into the Cloisters. South of the slype lies the =Chapter-House=, deserving a visit because it is a fine example of Early English. The monks’ heads carved on the corbels, the bosses of the roof, and the arcade of five arches at the east end are the chief features of the interior. [Illustration: OXFORD: LATIN CHAPEL] [Illustration: ST. PAUL’S: WEST FRONT] ST. PAUL’S, LONDON DEDICATION: ST. PAUL. A CHURCH FORMERLY SERVED BY SECULAR CANONS. SPECIAL FEATURES: DOME; CHOIR STALLS; TOMBS AND MONUMENTS. The present building in the Renaissance style is the third Christian church erected on this site. It is said that a Roman temple to Diana stood here; but the earliest church of which records exist was erected by Ethelbert, King of Kent, in 610, in which he was assisted by Siebert, King of the East Saxons, his nephew, who founded the monastery of St. Peter, called Westminster, on Thorney Island. This Cathedral, which owed much of its prosperity to St. Erkenwald, fourth Bishop of London, to whose memory a golden shrine was erected here, suffered from fire in 961 and was completely destroyed in 1086. On the ruins a Norman church was immediately erected, the architect for which was Bishop Maurice. Though injured by fire in 1193 it was a stately and beautiful building, in the Norman style. It was cruciform, with two western towers for bells and a high tower in the centre with a spire. In addition to the high altar there were seventy or eighty chantries with their own altars, and behind the high altar the golden shrine containing the body of St. Erkenwald. The nave contained twelve bays and also the choir rebuilt in 1221. The Lady-Chapel was added in 1225. It was the largest Cathedral in England. St. Paul’s was rich in relics and in treasure of all kinds--pictures and frescoes, vestments, gold, silver and jewels. In 1312 the nave was paved with marble and in 1315 a new wooden spire 460 feet high was added.