386 ON THE LATE, OR DEBASED, with the arms of the founder.^ Some of the bosses are of good design and execution, but others are of late character. The general effect is good, but the details, particularly the mouldings, are of very debased character. The buttresses of the Divinity School are panelled the greater part of their height, and one of these, as has been mentioned before, is built in, and forms part of Bodley's new wall, so that the panelling is visible on both sides, but on the east end it is carried forward on the face of the wall, as far as the point from which the porch seems to have projected, and it is tolerably evident from the remains of the shafts which have been cut away, and from other marks on the wall, that this porch must have been groined. It seems to have been the wish of Bodley to have his new building to agree in character with the old, and he therefore had the whole of his building panelled in the same manner as the Divinity School. This forms the west side of the School's Quadrangle,^ and is different in character from the rest of the buildings. The width of the quadrangle of the schools is greater than the length of the front of the Bodleian, and therefore a few feet had to be added at each end of Bodley's work. This may be seen inside these staircases, particularly between the entrances to the Bodleian and the Picture Gallery, where the old work is panelled, and has a corbel table the same as the rest of the front, but the new work is plain. The upper story of this building joins Duke Humphrey's Library, and is lighted by a large window at each end, and another opposite the old library. This window is a curious combination of mullions, transoms, and tracery of different forms. The rest of the windows are small. Sir Thomas Bodley, shortly before his death, had conceived and matured the plan of a new building for the Pubhc Schools of the University, and everything was settled for carrying the plan into execution, but he did not live to see it commenced. He died at his house in London in 1613, and was brought to Oxford, and buried in Merton College Chapel on the 29 th of March in that year, and the day after the ^ Quarterly, 1 and 4, Argent five mart- wards, but were panelled to match the lets saltier-wise sable ; on a chief azure, rest of the work. On the north end this three ducal coronets, Or ; a crescent for panelling seems to have been subsequently difference. Bodley. 2 and 3, Argent, two cut away, so that nothing but the small bars wavy, between three billets sable. arches remain attached to the under side /Jore. of the strings. In Williams's Oxonia
- The two staircases were added after Depicta it is shown completely panelled.
