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Create your own video on http://studio.stupeflix.com/?w=1 ! 1675 Copper engraving of the College, looking east across the front entrance and First quad, on the left is the tiered garden where Second quad would be built. 1733 Copper engraving of the College, looking south, after the completion of Bishop Robinson's and Provost Carter's buildings in Second quad. 1919 photogravure of the College, looking south, after the completion of the Rhodes Building (in the foreground). In the gallery of the chapel is a late medieval stained glass image of St Margaret of Antioch. Designed by James Wyatt and completed in 1796, this building houses the senior common rooms and library. On the first floor of James Wyatt's building, the senior library, looking east. Statues of Cecil Rhodes, Edward VII and George V on the central bay of the Rhodes Building's High Street façade. On the first floor of No.6 King Edward Street is a portrait bust of former student and benefactor Cecil Rhodes. Rectory Road's Goldie Wing is one of the remaining buildings of a former convent. Rectory Road's James Mellon Hall was built in 2000, on the site of Nazareth House. In the vault of the main entrance, a roof boss displays the college's coat of arms, the three lions of Edward II with an engrailed silver border. On the main gate, a painted carving of the badge of the Prince of Wales, a symbol often adopted by members of college. During the 2006 Torpids, the double headship winning Oriel Men's and Women's Eights maintained the College's reputation for success in rowing.