Inscriptions: Clarendon Building
High on the east side of the Clarendon Building is a statue of the Earl of Clarendon that used to stand more prominently in a niche at the front, facing Broad Street. The inscription under the statue reads:
EDWARDVS COMES CLARENDONIAE
Summus Angliae Summus Academiae
Cancellarius
(Edward, Earl of Clarendon, a great Chancellor of England and a great Chancellor of the University)