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Excerpt from Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods
Nor was the spirit of Hamanism in letters so closely allied with, nor so propitious to the Renaissance as is claimed for it. Had such really been the case the Universities, as chief seats of learning in the Kingdom, must have been the first to be affected by it and would be bearing today visible tokens of the same in the aspect of their buildings. But, to judge by the evidence which those buildings afford, the very opposite is the truth. It was in academic Oxford that the practice of Gothic, ailing and doomed, it must be confessed, but alive still, lingered longest. Thus, in 1640 (that is after an interval of nearly three centuries from the first appearance of fan - vaulting, in the Cloisters at Gloucester), an all but nameless architect from London produced the magnificent entrance to the hall at Christ Church; a feat which, but that it is attested by incontrovertible record, no one would ever have credited to so recent a date. The chapels of Wadha'm and Jesus Colleges contain windows (1612 and 1636 respectively) almost as astonishing for their period.
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