1911 - The Rhodes Building - Oxford, UK - Chronograms on Waymarking.com

The building is a Historic England Grade II Listed Building and below are some details extracted from the website.
"The Rhodes Building forms the north range of St Mary's (or 'the Third') Quadrangle at Oriel College and was built to house undergraduates and Fellows of the college. It was built between 1909 and 1911 to the designs of Basil Champneys (1842-1935) in a bold Jacobethan style and remains largely unaltered except for modifications to the south-east wing in 1981. In 2010 it provides both student and office accommodation...

...The level above, flanked by paired, un-fluted Corinthian columns, displays a statue of Rhodes himself, under a shell canopy propped by barley-sugar columns. At his feet a relief inscription reads E[X]: LARGA: MVNIFICENTIA CAECILII:RHODES, ie 'Out of the splendid generosity of Cecil Rhodes', the raised letters (here in bold) forming the laborious chronogram LMVIICICILIID (ie, reshuffled, MDCCCLLVIIIIII, ie 1911)."

The website has details of the Latin phrase and the digits used to form the date, but it is not actually clear exactly which letters are used. The actual layout of the words is as follows...

E:LARGA:MVNIFICENTIA
CAECILII RHODES

The first word should be EX (out of) but as the X is not needed for the Chronogram it has been shortened to be just E:

Type of numerals used: Roman Text of the original chronogram: E[X]: LARGA: MVNIFICENTIA CAECILII:RHODES, ie English translation of the chronogram: 'Out of the splendid generosity of Cecil Rhodes', Pure chronogram?: yes Natural chronogram?: no Website explaining the chronogram: [Web Link]

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