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46-548: The Clarendon Fund Scholarship is a scholarship at the University of Oxford . All Oxford University applicants to degree bearing graduate courses are automatically considered for the Clarendon Scholarship. Established in 2000 and launched in 2001, annually, the scheme now creates over 200 Clarendon Fund Scholarships , formerly referred to as Clarendon Fund Bursaries, to Oxford graduate students from around

92-456: A Grand Tour , where he might have been influenced by the style of architecture there. Instead he studied engravings especially monuments of ancient Rome and reconstructions of the Temple of Solomon . As he neared the age of 50, Hawksmoor began to produce work for the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. In 1713 he was commissioned to complete King's College, Cambridge : the scheme consisted of

138-678: A 'full-ride', covering all tuition, accommodation, housing and others. Some prestigious, highly competitive scholarships are well-known even outside the academic community, such as Fulbright Scholarship and the Rhodes Scholarships at the graduate level, and the Robertson , Morehead-Cain and Jefferson Scholarships at the undergraduate level. While the terms scholarship and grant are frequently used interchangeably, they are distinctly different. Where grants are offered based exclusively on financial need, scholarships may have

184-588: A Fellows' Building along King's Parade, and opposite the Chapel a monumental range of buildings containing the Great Hall, kitchens and to the south of that the library and Provost's Lodge. Plans and wooden models for the scheme survive, but it proved too expensive and Hawksmoor produced a second scaled down design. But the college that had invested heavily in the South Sea Company lost their money when

230-406: A financial need component but rely on other criteria as well. A federal Pell Grant can be awarded to someone planning to receive their undergraduate degree and is solely based on their financial needs. The most common scholarships may be classified as: Nicholas Hawksmoor Nicholas Hawksmoor ( c.  1661 – 25 March 1736) was an English architect. He was a leading figure of

276-606: A major architectural personality, and in the next 20 years he proved himself to be one of the great masters of the English Baroque. His baroque, but somewhat classical and gothic architectural form was derived from his exploration of antiquity , the Renaissance , the English Middle Ages and contemporary Italian baroque . Unlike many of his wealthier contemporaries, Hawksmoor never travelled to Italy on

322-655: A man?" Only in 1726 after William Benson 's successor Hewett died, was Hawksmoor restored to the secretaryship, though not the clerkship which was given to Filtcroft. In 1696, Hawksmoor was appointed surveyor to the Commissioners of Sewers for Westminster, but was dismissed in 1700, having neglected to attend the Court several days last past. In 1702, Hawksmoor designed the baroque country house of Easton Neston in Northamptonshire for Sir William Fermor. This

368-465: A more particular manner felt by those who had the pleasure of his personal acquaintance, and enjoy'd the happiness of his conversation. Upon his death he left a widow, to whom he bequeathed all his property in Westminster , Highgate , Shenley , and East Drayton , who later married William Theaker; the grandchild of this second marriage ultimately inherited Hawksmoor's properties near Drayton after

414-654: A number of structures for the gardens at Castle Howard . These are: At Blenheim Palace he designed the Woodstock Gate (1723) in the form of a Triumphal arch . He also designed the Ripon Obelisk in Ripon 's market place, erected in 1702, at 80 feet (24 m) in height it was the first large scale obelisk to be erected in Britain. Hawksmoor died on 25 March 1736 in his house at Millbank from " Gout of

460-618: The English Baroque style of architecture in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. Hawksmoor worked alongside the principal architects of the time, Christopher Wren and John Vanbrugh , and contributed to the design of some of the most notable buildings of the period, including St Paul's Cathedral , Wren's City of London churches , Greenwich Hospital , Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard . Part of his work has been correctly attributed to him only relatively recently, and his influence has reached several poets and authors of

506-869: The Royal Institute of British Architects Drawings Collection, show that he was still learning the techniques of his new profession at the age of 22. His first official post was as Deputy Surveyor to Wren at Winchester Palace from 1683 until February 1685. Hawksmoor's signature appears on a brickmaker's contract for Winchester Palace in November 1684. Wren was paying him 2 shillings a day in 1685 as assistant in his office in Whitehall . From about 1684 to about 1700, Hawksmoor worked with Christopher Wren on projects including Chelsea Hospital , St Paul's Cathedral , Hampton Court Palace and Greenwich Hospital . Thanks to Wren's influence as Surveyor-General, Hawksmoor

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552-575: The "bubble" burst in 1720. As a result, Hawksmoor's scheme was never executed; instead, the college was developed later in the 18th century by James Gibbs and early in the 19th century by William Wilkins . In the 1690s, Hawksmoor gave proposals for the library of the Queen's College, Oxford. However like many of his proposals for both universities, such as All Souls College , the Radcliffe Library , Brasenose College , Magdalen College Oxford,

598-653: The Clarendon Fund was established by the Council of the University of Oxford in 2000 and launched in 2001. The original aim of the Fund, as agreed by the council, was to "assist the best overseas graduate students who obtain places to study in the University", regardless of financial capability and to remove any barriers between the best prospective graduate students and studying at the University of Oxford. However, in

644-474: The Clarendon Scholars' Association, is also funded so that it can provide scholars with opportunities ranging from career-oriented to cultural and social events, to foster long-lasting friendships between the scholars. Every applicant to a degree-bearing graduate course at the University of Oxford is automatically considered for a Clarendon Fund Scholarship. Unlike many scholarships that highlight

690-598: The Clarendon scholars who will write the pages of the university's future. It shows the statues of the Muses at the top of the Clarendon building, which are perhaps the building's most recognisable feature and an iconic part of the Oxford skyline. The building was constructed in the classical style from 1711 to 1713 on the design of Nicholas Hawksmoor , a pupil of the famous architect Sir Christopher Wren . The font used with

736-835: The Oxford Arms in Ludgate Street , City of London, a lodge belonging to the Premier Grand Lodge of England . In 1711, parliament passed an Act for the building of Fifty New Churches in the Cities of London and Westminster or the Suburbs thereof , which established a commission which included Christopher Wren , John Vanbrugh , Thomas Archer and a number of churchmen. The commission appointed Hawksmoor and William Dickinson as its surveyors. As supervising architects they were not necessarily expected to design all

782-529: The Reigns of King William and Queen Anne, he was Clerk of their Majesties Works at Kensington, and at Whitehall, St. Jame's and Westminster. In the reign of King George I, he was first Surveyor of all the new Churches, and Surveyor of Westminster-Abbey, from the death of Sir Christopher Wren. He was chiefly concern'd in designing and building a great number of magnificent Nobleman's Houses, and particularly (with Sir John Vanbrugh) those of Blenheim and Castle-Howard, at

828-660: The building eventually went to James Gibbs , due to Hawksmoor's untimely death. He designed the Clarendon Building at Oxford ; the Codrington Library and new buildings at All Souls College, Oxford ; parts of Worcester College, Oxford with Sir George Clarke ; the High Street screen at The Queen's College, Oxford and six new churches in London. Hawksmoor was initiated into freemasonry in 1730 at

874-661: The churches themselves. Dickinson left his post in 1713 and was replaced by James Gibbs . Gibbs was removed in 1716 and replaced by John James . James and Hawksmoor remained in office until the commission was wound up in 1733. The declining enthusiasm of the Commission, and the expense of the buildings, meant that only twelve churches were completed, six designed by Hawksmoor, and two by James in collaboration with Hawksmoor. The two collaborations were St Luke Old Street (1727–33) and St John Horsleydown (1727–33), to which Hawksmoor's contribution seems to have been largely confined to

920-475: The commission by 1733, they were still being paid "for carrying on and finishing the works under their care" until James's death. After the death of Wren in 1723, Hawksmoor was appointed Surveyor to Westminster Abbey . Parliament had voted £100 for the repair and completion of the Abbey in 1698. The west towers of the Abbey were designed by Hawksmoor but not completed until after his death. Hawksmoor also designed

966-589: The death of the architect's widow. Hawksmoor's architecture has influenced several poets and authors of the twentieth century. His church St Mary Woolnoth is mentioned in T. S. Eliot 's poem The Waste Land (1922). Algernon Stitch lived in a "superb creation by Nicholas Hawksmoor" in London in the novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh (1938). Hawksmoor is the subject of a poem by Iain Sinclair called 'Nicholas Hawksmoor: His Churches' which appeared in Sinclair's collection of poems Lud Heat (1975). Sinclair promoted

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1012-520: The demanding Duchess of Marlborough, and Castle Howard for Charles Howard, later the 3rd Earl of Carlisle. In July 1721, John Vanbrugh made Hawksmoor his deputy as Comptroller of the Works. There is no doubt that Hawksmoor brought to the brilliant amateur the professional grounding he had received from Wren, but it is also arguable that Wren's architectural development was from the persuasion of his formal pupil, Hawksmoor. By 1700 Hawksmoor had emerged as

1058-521: The design and model of Dr. Ratcliff 's Library there, his design of a new Parliament-House, after the thought of Sir Christopher Wren; and, to mention no more, his noble Design for repairing the West-End of Westminster-Abbey, will all stand monuments to his great capacity, inexhaustible fancy, and solid judgement. He was perfectly skill'd in the History of Architecture, and could give exact account of all

1104-483: The eponymous Hawksmoor is a twentieth-century detective charged with investigating a series of murders perpetrated on Dyer's (Hawksmoor's) churches. Both Sinclair and Ackroyd's ideas in turn were further developed by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell in their graphic novel , From Hell , which speculated that Jack the Ripper used Hawksmoor's buildings as part of ritual magic , with his victims as human sacrifice . In

1150-402: The famous buildings, both Antient and Modern, in every part of the world; to which his excellent memory, that never fail'd him to the very last, greatly contributed. Nor was architecture the only science he was master of. He was bred a scholar. and knew as well the learned as the modern tongues. He was a very skilful mathematician, geographer, and geometrician; and in drawing, which he practised to

1196-484: The favour and esteem of his great master and predecessor, Sir Christopher Wren, under whom, during his life, and for himself since his death, he was concerned in the erecting more Publick Edifices, than any one life, among the moderns at least, can boast of. In King Charles II's reign, he was employ'd under Sir Christopher Wren, in the stately buildings at Winchester; as he was likewise in all the other publick structures, Palaces &c, erected by that great Man, under whom he

1242-427: The last, though greatly afflicted with Chiragra, few excelled him. In his private life he was a tender husband, a loving father, a sincere friend, and a most agreeable companion; nor could the most poignant pains of Gout, which he for many years laboured under, ever ruffle or discompose his evenness of temper. And as his memory must always be dear to his Country, so the loss of so great and valuable man in sensibly, and in

1288-467: The latter of which he was at his Death, carrying on a Mausoleum in the most elegant and grand Stile, not to mention many others: But one of the most surprising of his undertakings, was the repairing of Beverley Minster , where the stone wall on the north-side was near three Foot out of the perpendicular, which he mov'd at once to its upright by means of a machine of his own invention. In short his numerous Publick Works at Oxford, perfected in his lifetime, and

1334-479: The library was not executed. Hawksmoor conceived grand rebuilding schemes for central Oxford , most of which were not realised. Surviving drawings from c.1713 propose the rebuilding of the central core of the academic area of Oxford as a Forum Universitatis . The concept for a domed circular library sitting within an open square for the Radcliffe Camera was initially Hawksmoor's, but the commission for

1380-561: The logo is called Trajan Pro and has its origins in the Roman lettering found on Trajan's Column , which was completed in 113 CE. It was chosen specifically to complement the architectural style of the Clarendon building. Trajan remains one of the most widely used fonts in book jacket cover design, a further link to the Clarendon Building's original use as the home of OUP. Scholarship Scholarship criteria usually reflect

1426-586: The need for a track record of leadership among their applicants, the Clarendon Fund Scholarship focuses primarily on proven academic performance and potential for advancing their fields of study during and beyond their time in Oxford. The process of selection aims to award the scholarship to students from each of the university's four academic divisions and the Department of Continuing Education, allowing interdisciplinary interaction amongst

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1472-425: The poetic interpretation of the architect's singular style of architectural composition that Hawksmoor's churches formed a pattern consistent with the forms of Theistic Satanism though there is no documentary or historic evidence for this. This idea was, however, embellished by Peter Ackroyd in his novel Hawksmoor (1985): the historical Hawksmoor is refigured as the fictional Devil-worshipper Nicholas Dyer, while

1518-533: The scholars. Edward Hyde , later Earl of Clarendon and also Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1660 to 1667, wrote a famous and highly profitable work, History of the Great Rebellion about the English Civil War of the 17th century. The profits of his book were used to construct the university-owned Clarendon Building on Broad Street in central Oxford. The Clarendon Building

1564-590: The stomach". He had suffered poor health for the last twenty years of his life and was often confined to bed hardly able to sign his name. His will instructed that he be buried at the church of St Botolph Shenley, Hertfordshire , Shenleybury, which has been deconsecrated so the tomb now sits in a private garden. The inscription, cut by Andrews Jelfe a mason who worked regularly on his buildings reads: P M S L Hic J[acet] NICHOLAUS HAWKSMOOR Armr ARCHITECTUS obijt vicesimo quin[t]o die [Martii] Anno Domini 1736 Aetatis 75 Hawksmoor's only child

1610-717: The towers with their extraordinary steeples. The six churches wholly designed by Hawksmoor were St Alfege's Church, Greenwich ; St George's Church, Bloomsbury ; Christ Church, Spitalfields ; St George in the East , Wapping ; St Mary Woolnoth ; and St Anne's Limehouse . They are his best-known independent works of architecture, and compare in their complexity of interpenetrating internal spaces with contemporaneous work in Italy by Francesco Borromini . Their spires are essentially Gothic outlines executed in innovative and imaginative Classical detail. Although Hawksmoor and John James terminated

1656-663: The twentieth century. Hawksmoor was born in Nottinghamshire in 1661, into a yeoman farming family, almost certainly in East Drayton or Ragnall , Nottinghamshire. On his death he was to leave property at nearby Ragnall , Dunham and a house and land at Great Drayton. It is not known where he received his schooling, but it was probably in more than basic literacy. George Vertue , whose family had property in Hawksmoor's part of Nottinghamshire, wrote in 1731 that he

1702-475: The university. Unlike the similar Rhodes Scholarship, it is open to all applicants regardless of age. It covers course fees and provides a grant for living expenses. As of 2022, there have been more than 2,000 recipients of scholarships from the Clarendon Fund, including over 400 Clarendon Scholars at Oxford in the academic year of 2022/23. Financed primarily by the Oxford University Press ,

1748-487: The values and goals of the donor of the award, and while scholarship recipients are not required to repay scholarships, the awards may require that the recipient continue to meet certain requirements during their period of support, such as maintaining a minimum grade point average or engaging in a certain activity (e.g., playing on a school sports team for athletic scholarship holders). Scholarships also range in generosity; some cover partial tuition , while others offer

1794-415: The world and from across all subject areas , who demonstrate academic excellence and potential. The 2022-23 cohort of Clarendon Scholars includes students from 42 countries. The Clarendon Scholarship enables the most distinguished and competitive scholars to undertake part - or full -time degree -bearing graduate study , including taught master's degrees , research master's, and research doctorates at

1840-420: The year of the Clarendon Fund's 10th anniversary, from 1 September 2011, the ambit of the Fund and its scholarships was expanded to include all nationalities and all fee statuses, as opposed to only candidates with overseas fee status. The Clarendon Fund is sponsored by Oxford University Press , from which it has received more than £37 million. It covers fees and living expenses. The scholarship community, called

1886-556: Was a daughter, Elizabeth, whose second husband, Nathanial Blackerby, wrote the obituary of his father-in-law. His obituary appeared in Read's Weekly Journal , no. 603. 27 March 1736: Thursday morning died, at this house on Mill-Bank, Westminster, in a very advanced age, the learned and ingenious Nicholas Hawksmoor, Esq, one of the greatest Architects this or the preceding Century has produc'd. His early skill in, and Genius for this noble science recommended him, when about 18 years of age, to

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1932-597: Was assisting, from the Beginning [factually wrong, Hawksmoor was 14 years old then] to the Finishing of that grand and noble Edifice the cathedral of St. Paul's, and of all the churches rebuilt after the Fire of London. At the building of Chelsea-College he was Deputy-Surveyor, and Clerk of Works, under Sir Christopher Wren. At Greenwich-Hospital he was, from the Beginning 'till a short time before his death, Clerk of Works. In

1978-505: Was designed to house Oxford University Press (OUP), and so the Clarendon Fund was named in honour of this famous building and its historic linkages to OUP, the main benefactor of the Clarendon Scholarships. The Clarendon Fund logo was designed in 2009 in the run-up to the Fund's 10th anniversary, and simplified and updated in 2014. It celebrates both the long history and traditions of Oxford and of OUP, as well as welcoming

2024-493: Was named Clerk of the Works at Kensington Palace (1689) and Deputy Surveyor of Works at Greenwich (1705). In 1718, when Wren was superseded by the new, amateur Surveyor, William Benson , Hawksmoor was deprived of his double post to provide places for Benson's brother. "Poor Hawksmoor," wrote Vanbrugh in 1721. "What a Barbarous Age have his fine, ingenious Parts fallen into. What wou'd Monsr: Colbert in France have given for such

2070-713: Was taken as a youth to act as clerk by "Justice Mellust in Yorkshire, where Mr Gouge senior did some fretwork ceilings afterwards Mr. Haukesmore [ sic ] came to London, became clerk to Sr. Christopher Wren & thence became an Architect". Wren , hearing of his "early skill and genius" for architecture, took him on as his clerk at about the age of 18. A surviving early sketch-book contains sketches and notes, some dated 1680 and 1683, of buildings in Nottingham , Coventry , Warwick , Bath , Bristol, Oxford and Northampton . These somewhat amateur drawings, now in

2116-584: Was the only country house for which he was the sole architect, though he extensively remodelled Ockham House , now mostly destroyed, for the Lord Chief Justice King. Easton Neston was not completed as he intended, the symmetrical flanking wings and entrance colonnade remaining unexecuted. He then worked for a time with Sir John Vanbrugh , assisting him on the building Blenheim Palace for John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough , where he took charge from 1705, after Vanbrugh's final break with

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