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Merton College Chapel
Merton College Chapel is the church of Merton College, Oxford, England. Dedicated to St Mary and St John the Baptist, the chapel was largely completed in its present form the end of the 13th century.
==History==
On 13 September 1266 the church of St John the Baptist was granted to the scholars of Merton College by the Abbey of Reading.〔(Henderson, Bernard William, p.26, ''Merton College'', (1899). ) Retrieved 9 February 2010〕 However, by the late 1280s it had fallen into "a ruinous condition",〔Anthony Wood, quoted in Bott, p.24〕 and Merton college accounts show that work on a new church on the same site began in about 1290.
The present choir with its enormous east window was complete by 1294. The window is an important example (because it is so well dated) of how the strict geometrical conventions of the Early English Period of architecture were beginning to be relaxed at the end of the 13th century.〔Pevsner, p.25〕 The south transept was built in the 14th century, the north transept in the early years of the 15th century. The great tower was complete by 1450. The chapel replaced the parish church of St. John and continued to serve as the parish church as well as the chapel until 1891. It is for this reason that it is generally referred to as Merton Church in older documents, and that there is a north door into the street as well as doors into the college. This dual role also probably explains the enormous scale of the chapel, which in its original design was to have a nave and two aisles extending to the west.〔See Bott, pp.24–37〕
In the early 16th century, the college appears to have abandoned plans to extend the chapel, as the land on which the nave would have been built was leased in 1517 to Richard Foxe (c1448–1528), Bishop of Winchester, founder of Corpus Christi College, next door to Merton.〔(History of Merton Chapel ). Retrieved 9 February 2010.〕
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