But the most interesting feature the reredos, with its "rows of fgarved figures,' §2 in all T thinly, from wall to Wall and right up 0 the" ceiling, When. 'Somerset's Commissioners came to Oxford, in the reign of Edward VI they' int ted on hurling down the statues, ite of the pleadings of War"
and Fellows. Why, "by" the they spared the stained glass windows, is a mystery. Unable to dure the sight of all the empty ches, the Warden "and Fellow' had the wall coated with plaster and frescoes painted on it In time the recollection of the original reredos. faded awa: that it, had ever But only 68 years, ago a workman, still alive, was doing. something ts the wall," when his hammer went through the plaster, disclosing the frettd canopy of niche. There: upon the wall ped" and the original design dis. covered. 'The ancient figures, were gone, but new ones were mage, ex: seemingly well too and the surface is mellowed to the resemblance of ivory. For models they' took distinguished men of the day, and 80 there is the late Lord Salisbury immortalized inthe character of John of Gaunt,
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