Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...to have been suggested by that of Crosby Hall, in London; but it differs from that and other medieval halls in having the oriel window in the middle, and two lanterns. Here are portraits of Sir Robert Walpole, Archbishop Sumner, and Lord Stratford de Redcliffe. The combination room, the library, and the Provost's lodge are in the same block. A part of Wilkin's plan to gothicise Gibbs' building into harmony with his own, was happily omitted. The screen has been abused, more, perhaps, than it deserved. It has, at any rate, the merit of leaving one side of the court comparatively open, and of not reducing the dimensions of the court, as a pile of chambers would have done. An eminent architect, recently deceased, who was consulted respecting it, observed, "You may pull it down, but I question whether you will get any better in its place." Finally, the acquisition of Mr. Cory's house, in 1870, enabled the college to complete the south-east corner with a building designed by Sir G. Scott. A wooden Bridge over the Cam, opposite the middle of the back of the college, as directed by the founder, was erected in 1472. It was pulled down, and a stone one was built in 1627; and a raised avenue, a part of which still remains, ran westward from it across 'Butt Close' to a wooden bridge or gate over the western boundary-ditch. In 1819 the present bridge was erected at the suggestion, and chiefly at the expense, of the Rev. C. Simeon, who occupied the rooms over the arch in Gibbs' building. The old bridge and the avenue were destroyed, and the ground laid out as it now is. The Fountain in the middle of the quadrangle, with a statue of the founder, whose plan included a fountain here, was erected in 1879, a sum of money having been bequeathed for the purpose, in 18...
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