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=== Old Quadrangle === The Old Quadrangle (known as Old Quad or OB Quad, for Old Buildings) is, as the name suggests, the oldest and the original quadrangle. Its entrance is the through the Gatehouse on Catte Street, directly opposite the main gates of the [[Bodleian Library]]. The Gatehouse is a late 19th-century building by [[Thomas Graham Jackson]], bearing the image of a drinking [[hart (deer)|hart]] above the archway. However, the wooden doors with their colourful floral decoration are the gates of Hart Hall from the 17th century.<ref name="auto"/> The Gatehouse houses the Lodge.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}} Through the Gatehouse, the quadrangle is laid out around a pleasant lawn with a few decorative trees. The lawn is off-limits during [[Michaelmas term|Michaelmas]] and [[Hilary term]]s but is accessible during [[Trinity term]] for sitting on (at any time) and croquet (on Fridays and Sundays only).{{citation needed|date=March 2021}} {{wide image|Hertford College panorama.jpg|800px|North-east corner of the Old Quad of Hertford College, showing, from left to right, the Bursary, the Old Hall, the Old Library and the Senior Common Room}} In the north-east corner of the quad is the Old Hall, the oldest remaining buildings of Hart Hall, dating from the 1570s. The Old Hall and its adjoining [[Buttery (room)|Buttery]] are now in regular use for dining, especially by the Fellows. Running southwards, along the eastern side of the quad, is a 17th-century building, with [[oriel window]]s tucked away on its southern end. Originally, the portion closest to the Old Hall was student accommodation, and the southern portion was the principal's lodgings. Today the building is mostly taken over by the [[Common Room (university)|Senior Common Room]], with the northern ground-floor room being the Old Library. In the south-east corner is the 18th-century Cottage, the only one of the planned four 'angles' of Dr Newton that was ever built. Originally, this occupied the entire corner, around to what was the chapel (and is now the library). Its southern side was demolished to make way for Jackson's Chapel.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}} [[File:UK-2014-Oxford-Hertford College 02a.jpg|thumb|South-east corner of the Old Quad of Hertford College, showing, from left to right, Dr Newton's Angle, T. G. Jackson's Chapel, and (partially obscured) the Library]] The southern side of the quad consists of the Chapel, built in 1908 by Jackson, which has a particularly good acoustic. Its [[ante-chapel]] houses a stained-glass window depicting [[William Tyndale]], made in 1911 for the [[British and Foreign Bible Society]], and installed at Hertford in 1994. West of the Chapel is the Library, which was the previous chapel built in the 18th century by Newton. The Library possesses many fine, antique books, most of which belonged to the library of Magdalen Hall. Among these are many rare 17th-century manuscripts and an original edition of [[Thomas Hobbes]]'s ''[[Leviathan (Hobbes book)|Leviathan]]'' given as a personal gift to the college: Hobbes prepared this work while at Magdalen Hall.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}} The western side of the quad has the Gatehouse, with the Lodge, in its centre. On either side of this are slightly earlier buildings, the southern of which is the Principal's Lodgings, and the northern mostly houses the college's offices. In addition, the north-west building has access onto the [[Bridge of Sighs (Oxford)|Bridge of Sighs]]. Above the Gatehouse is the dining Hall, which is wood-panelled and hung with a number of college portraits. The hall is reached from the quad by a distinctive stone spiral staircase designed by Jackson, and inspired by the spiral staircase at the [[Château de Blois]].{{citation needed|date=March 2021}} The northern side of the quad consists of a building by Jackson, much of which now houses the [[Bursary]]. The building is infamous as the site of the incident novelised in [[Evelyn Waugh]]'s ''[[Brideshead Revisited]]'' in which [[Lord Sebastian Flyte|Sebastian Flyte]], returning from a [[Bullingdon Club]] bender vomits through a window into a ground-floor room.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}
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