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3 giorni fa · (16) Merton College stands on the S. side of Merton Street. The walls are of local Oxfordshire stone and the roofs are slate-covered. The college was first founded by Walter de Merton, later Bishop of Rochester, in 1264 and moved to Oxford in 1274.
2 giorni fa · Plate 148: Merton College, Glass in Side Windows of Chapel An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford . Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1939.
4 giorni fa · MERTON COLLEGE Buildings. The street upon which the college fronts is called to-day Merton Street. In the Survey of 1772 it has the humbler title of Merton Lane. On the map of 1750 it appears as King Street, the strip at the east end of it, leading into High Street, figuring as Coach and Horses Lane.
4 giorni fa · Organ Recitals. Forthcoming recitals on the Dobson Organ. Lunchtime recitals are held every Thursday during Michaelmas and Trinity terms, and are free to attend.
5 giorni fa · In the 1340s William Rede, a fellow of Merton College, calculated the geographical coordinates of Oxford and, in the next decade, these measurements seem to have allowed a highly precise representation of the area around the city to be rendered in the Gough Map of Great Britain.
2 giorni fa · Martellus’s map, with its center in Eurasia and numerous places newly identified along West Africa, reflects a Europe grasping to understand implications of revolutionary information that the Earth might not consist of a single land mass, as medieval cartographers assumed.
2 giorni fa · Alumni events. Further details on all events are available from the Development Office on 01865 276316 or development@merton.ox.ac.uk. We add to the events schedule throughout the year and regularly update the website with information as it becomes available.
