The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-01

ert built the large ante-chapel to tbs old
chapel in the year 1875 The stone had also
upon it a depression in (which the head
of the figure of Lanston had rested In
the monument room Of the college was
a brass which in the last century was
believed to be that of Robert Eslesield.
the founder of the college, but arehse-
ologists described it as OF later date,
and no doubt correctly so. The head of
this brass fits into the depression in the
stone on which is the rebus. and it is
certainly that of Robert Langton-
Another interesting discovery was
brass representing the figure of a man
with an inscription below The features
and the details of the inscription are all
rubbed quite nat This has been identi-
fed as the memorial of Nicholas Hyen-
son. Fellow of the college in 141l. In adj
dition there was found a stone with an
inscription of ..Radulphus Hamisterrey.
Master OF the University College" Above
the inscription in the depression of the
stone there was evidently originally a
figure, but this has disappeared. In the
crypt were the thre gravestones, which
formerly rested on the floor OF the old
chapel of Provost Oiray provost, 1888
1876, Provost Christopher Potter and
Provost Langbaine. Arrays stone has
brass plate with an inscription upon 1t,
and the other stones are engraved with
the arms of the provosts. In the identin-
cation of these memorials an engraving
by Burghers representing the ground
plan of the old steel chapel was found
useful. This plan also facilitated the
determination of the position of the west
front of the ante-chapel, which was dis
closed in the excavations made for drain
age purposes in the line of the path lead
ing from the great gate of the college to
the chapel passage.
The drainage works also disclosed some
feet below the surface two passages, one
in the front quadrangle and the other in
the back, the object of which at first
seemed dougtful 1t was conjectured they
might have belonged to an older building
occupying the site of the present col
lege. Mr.. James Parker president or
the Oxford Architectural and Historical
Society, who was consulted, satisfied
himself that the tooling on some of the
stones corresponded with the tooling of
some of the stones which were laid when
the college was rebuilt. 1t is now looked
upon as certain that the passages were
conduits leading TO large blind wells in
tended to receive the surface water from
the college roofs and Quadrangles, ana
that the conduits were made so large 10
hold the flood water in case of an ex-
ceptionaI rainfall.
The crypt had been closed, the leaden
casket and collins being left as they were
found The remains of Provost Haltom,
from which the coffin had fallen, have
been deposited in an oak casbet, and the
gravestones have been placed in the ante
chapel The brasses found in the crypt,
with the stones to which they are at
tached, are fixed in the wall of the apse.
together with two other brasses that have
been preserved in the imminent room.
They will form an additional feature of
interest in the chapeS, the foundation
stone of which was laid on February 6,
1714, the dedication taking place on All
Saints Day, five years later. The fllumi-
mated windows in the chapel by Van Ling
Qe35) are in good preservation, and were
removed from the first chapel. They de-
oict scenes in the life of Christ. The west
ern-most windows are earlier, and Two
of them bear the date Q519 of Robert
Langston's ante-chapel. Some tiles OF an
ornamental character were discovered In
stu near the western entrance of the
old chapel, some of them adorned with
the same rebus as is on the brass which
formed part of Langston's memorial.