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OOTHIC BUILDINGS OF OXKOKI). .']91 The Hall of Trinity College, built in KHS to 1(120, lias good perpendicular windows. Jesus College Chapel, built in 1621, and the east window of the chapel, which was added in IfiSG, are much better than might have been expected at the j)criod, but there is no subordination of tracery, which all si)rings from the same fillet. The Chapel of Exeter College, built in 1G24, is a better specimen than the last. The tracery of the windows seems to have been copied from New College, and the subordination is preserved. The door, however, is completely of Jacobean character. The second quadrangle of St. John's, which was built by Archbishop Laud between 1631 and 1636, is remarkable, and different from anything else in Oxford. It is by Inigo Jones, and the effect of the garden front is highly ]iictures(]ue, and the combination of the Gothic forms with Elizal)ethan details skilfully managed. This mixture of styles, though it ^^ll not bear examination in detail, produces in the mass an effect highly pleasing ; and harmonising so well as it does with the foliage by which it is surrounded, it seems well suited for the purpose for which it is here employed. The quadrangle is on two sides supported on Doric columns and arches, the spandrels of wdiicli are filled with heads, and with emblems of the sciences and of the moral virtues. The Hall and Chapel of St. Mary Hall were built between the years 1632 and 1644. The arrangement is curious and unusual, the hall occupying the lower story, and the chajicl the upper. The window^s of the hall are squarehcadcd, but those of the chapel on the north and south sides are round- headed, with intersecting tracery. The filling up of the heads of the lights is singular. The tracery, which assumes something of a Flamboyant form, springs from the chamfer in the manner of a cusp, and its fillets do not touch in the middle. The east window is pointed, and of five lights, with a mixture of intersecting and perpendicular tracery, the whole exhibiting a good example of that commingling of preceding styles which is so frequently found in late Gothic structures. The Chapel of Lincoln College was built in 1631, and is one of the best examples of the period, the subordination of the tracery is preserved, and the mouldings arc good, except