Meanwhile  Perpendicular  Gothic  was
dying  hard,  especially  in  Oxford,  that
'  home  of  lost  causes.'  The  college  chapels
of  Wadham,  1613;  Jesus,  1621;  Lincoln,
1631;  St.  Mary  Hall,  1633;  Oriel,  1637,
show  a  determined  effort  to  keep  to  the
old  style.  The  design  and  details  of  Wad-
ham  are  so  excellent  that  it  might  well
have  been  erected  a  century  earlier.  The
most  remarkable  example,  however,  of
the  Gothic  Survival  is  the  staircase  of
Christ  Church  Hall,  with  its  central  pillar
and  fan  tracery,  built  as  late  as  1640.
The  Canterbury  buildings  of  St.  John's  Col-
lege, finished  1636,  are  among  the  most
beautiful  examples  of  the  friendly  meeting
of  the  old  and  the  new  styles.  The  quad-
rangle, with  its  two  arcaded  cloisters,  is
mainly  classical,  but  the  exquisite  '  Garden
front '  is  almost  Tudor.  This  is  probably
the  work  of  Le  Sueur  and  not  Inigo  Jones,
to  whom  it  is  popularly  ascribed.     Brasenose


Chapel,  1666,  shows  an  effort  to  blend  Gothic
and  Renaissance  with  the  most  charming
effect.  It  is  probably  the  latest  example
of  Gothic  as  a  living  though  an  expiring
tradition.  Other  churches  showing  good
seventeenth-century  Gothic  are  Bath  Abbey,
where  Bishop  Montagu  added  the  fine  fan
vault  to  the  roofless  nave,  1608-16;  St.
John's,  Leeds,  1632  ;  Leighton  Bromswold,
restored  1632  ;  Abbey  Dore,  restored  1634 ;
the  chapel  of  Peterhouse,  Cambridge,  1639  ;
St.  Catherine  Cree,  London,  1630.
Inigo  Jones  was  the  first  English  archi-
tect of  importance  to  free  himself  entirely
from  the  Gothic  tradition.  The  Banqueting-
House  at  Whitehall  (part  of  a,  vast  design
for  a  royal  palace)  and  the  portico  of  Old
St.  Paul's  show  design  equal  to  Palladio  and
the  great  Italian  masters.  His  work  was
unfortunately  interrupted  by  the  Great
Rebellion.
