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Chapel of Brasenose College, Oxford

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Chapel of Brasenose College, Oxford

The Chapel of Brasenose College, Oxford, dedicated to St Hugh and St Chad, is a Grade I listed building dating from the seventeenth century and constructed during Brasenose's second wave of building, started under the principalship of Samuel Radcliffe. It is believed to have replaced an earlier chap

el where the Senior Common Room now is, and includes items of silverware from around the date of foundation. The chapel is in a mixture of architectural styles – Gothic, neoclassical, and baroque – and has not proven uncontroversial for this reason. The current chaplain is The Reverend David Sheen. Radcliffe having failed to start work during his lifetime, his will set aside money and instructions for the construction of the new chapel on the south side of the college. For this purpose materials were taken from college properties – particularly from St Mary's College, which provided the hammerbeam roof and other materials for the project. The chapel and library cost together £4,000 at a time when college income was £600 a year. Disputes over the will and other problems meant that work on the construction did not begin until 1656 (eight years after Radcliffe's death), and was managed by the...

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