Ebook Wadham College, Oxford, Its Foundation, Architecture and History

Colleges, wadham is in many respects a typical specimen. Its buildings were completed at once, and have suffered less change than any other; its records are perhaps more complete; and its comparatively modern date, on the border line between the middle ages and our own, makes a closer acquaintance possible with the Founders and earlier members of the Society. The buildings remain as the Foundres's left them; the building accounts show not only every penny spent on the fabric, but the name of every workman who laboured upon it; the records and minutes go back to the first meeting of the Society; and the Registers — thanks to the industry of Mr. Gardiner, formerly a Scholar of the House — will soon be complete from the foundation to our own day.