Roger Bennion's photos with the keyword: New Building

Happy Fence Friday, All The New Building, Magdalen College dates from 1733 as a part of Edward Holdsworth's designs from 1731. It is built in a Palladian style, and features a colonnade. It was intended to be a "Great Quadrangle". The building's ends were left unfinished and, sadly, Holdsworth's full vision was never completed.

This is the New Building. The following information is reproduced from a College booklet provided to visitors - "The foundation stone was laid on 27 August 1733. In the early 18th century the New Building was indeed new. It was intended as the beginning of a grand neoclassical quadrangle. Its subsequent troubled history is visible in the different colour of the stone at either end which dates from the 1820s when it was finally resolved to complete the building. And, thus the New Building stands today, only one wing of a grand architectural fantasy that was never realised."