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poker room old picture of Mob QuadMob Quad is a four sided group of buildings poker room in Merton College, Oxford surrounding a small lawn. It was probably begun soon after the foundation of the College in 1264 and as it was completed before the middle of the next century it has a strong claim poker room to be the oldest quadrangle in Oxford. The model has been copied, or perhaps independently discovered, poker room at many other colleges and universities world wide.The buildings poker room are faced in an attractive rag-finished Cotswold stone, and have steeply pitched roofs. There are no chimneys: poker room they

had not been invented when the buildings were first completed, and although they were later added, they have been removed in modern times, since the coal fireplaces have been replaced with electric poker room heating. The walls are thick and the windows on the outside are small; it is possible that the layout originally had a defensive purpose.The south and west ranges have two storeys and house the Old Library on the first floor, with the modern reference library on the ground poker room floor. The old library poker room has large dormer windows which were added some

200 years after it was first built. The library contains a number of book chests, some chained books, one of Elizabeth Is Welsh Bibles, and a priceless collection of early printed books. There is also a collection poker room devoted to T. S. Eliot. The library is poker room still used by members of the college, and is open to visitors by arrangement. The north and east ranges, of three and two storeys respectively, are still used as undergraduate accommodation. In the north east corner, there is a building

of special interest. The roof in this corner is much steeper than the rest of the quad; this is because it is poker room made entirely of stone. It covers the colleges Muniments Room and is made of stone to protect the room from fire. This room, with its archway beneath, stands poker room on the site of the original house purchased by Walter de Merton from a merchant of Oxford called Jacob the Jew in 1264. The receipt is still kept in the Muniments Room.University of Oxford