3-070-978 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

New Examination Schools, Oxford, 1881. 'The buildings for the New Examination Schools of the University in the High-street of Oxford are now approaching completion...The new building...is designed by Mr. T. G. Jackson...The principal entrance is from High-street, into a large hall with a lofty oak roof and a gallery along one side. Behind the block containing the hall is a large building, forming three sides of a quadrangle, open to the east, in which are the examination rooms proper...As the building will be used, not only for examinations, but for grand receptions and on other public occasions, these rooms are handsomely finished with oak panelling and carved door cases, and the ceilings are decorated with moulded plaster-work...The style of the building is that earliest form of the English Renaissance in which the spirit of Gothic art still supplied the main motive, though the forms of classic architecture were freely imported into it...The building has been in progress nearly five years, and will probably be completed before the end of the present year, even if it be not ready in time for the public examinations in November'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.