School-life at Winchester College : $b or, the reminiscences of a Winchester junior under the old régime, 1835-40. — John Shaqi
School-life at Winchester College : $b or, the reminiscences of a Winchester junior under the old régime, 1835-40.Mansfield, Robert Blachford
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School-life at Winchester College : $b or, the reminiscences of a Winchester junior under the old régime, 1835-40.
Mansfield, Robert Blachford
Students -- England -- Winchester; Winchester College -- History
The beautiful Tower attached to the Chapel had long been in rather a
dilapidated condition, owing to its having been built on a very insecure
foundation; it had inclined considerably to one side, a great crack had
appeared on the contiguous wall of Chapel, which indeed it threatened to
drag down, and it was considered unsafe to ring the bells. For these
reasons the authorities determined to pull it down and rebuild it, stone
for stone, with the old materials; this was commenced in 1860, and the
work is now fully completed. It is called the “Tower of the Two Wardens,”
in memory of the late Dr Williams, who was (many years Head-master of
Winchester, and afterwards) Warden of New College, Oxford, and of Mr
Barter, the late Warden of Winchester; while the work of reconstruction
was going on, the opportunity was seized of enlarging the chapel by
taking in part of the Antechapel, as described in a previous page. If
the school continues to increase as it has done lately, this enlargement
must, I think, be carried on further, and the whole of Antechapel be
added to the main aisle. Beneath the Tower, on the southern side of the
Antechapel, is the following inscription:—
In Memoriam,
DAVID WILLIAMS, I.C.D.,
HUJUS COLLEGII
XIV. ANNOS HOSTIARII: XII. INFORMATORIS
COLL. B.M. WINTON IN OXON
XX. ANNOS CUSTODIS,
VIRI CONSILIO DIGNITATE DOCTRINÂ,
HUMANITATE MUNIFICENTIA,
CANDORE MORUM, ET INTEGRITATE VITÆ,
SI QUIS ALIUS INSIGNIS.
In Memoriam,
ROBERT SPECKOTT BARTER,
I.C.B.,
HUJUS COLLEGII
XXIX. ANNOS CUSTODIS,
VIRI
OB BENEVOLENTIAM CORDIS ET LARGITATEM
CONSTANTIAM ANIMI ET FIDEM,
SUAVITATEM LIBERALITATEM PIETATEM,
NEMINI NON DILECTUM.
Utriusque geminorum horum Collegiorum decoris tutelæ columnæ
Utriusque intra unius anni spatium ad immortalia avocati
Hanc Turrim vetustate diu labantem denuo exædificandam, ab nomine Duorum
Custodum
Perpetuo appellandum censuerunt Wiccamici sui A.S. MDCCCLXIII.
posterorum causa
Id scilicet in animis habentes ut in ipsa acerbissimi desiderii
recordatione manifestum facerent
Non in quibuslibet viris magnis nec in brevem aliquam hominum ætatem
Sed in omne tempus et in perpetua serie virorum ad horum exemplar
Sub his penetralibus ad omnia bona fortia fidelia enutriendorum
STARE REM WICCAMICAM.
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