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Title: The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Willis, Robert, 1800-1875 Clark, John Willis, 1833-1910
Subjects: University of Cambridge Eton College
Publisher: Cambridge (Eng.) : The University Press
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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the entire first floor of thesouth side ; the hall was at the north end of the east side. Thechapel stood external to the quadrangle, at the south-eastcorner, and on the south side of the chapel there was a smallcloister2. Both these quadrangles remain to us with only theinevitable changes produced by the requirements of succeedingages. (The first stone of the buildings of Christ Church, orCardinal College, as it was called by the founder, was laid17 July, 1525. The work was carried forward with the utmostdespatch, but, being interrupted by the fall of Wolsey in 1529,the college remained unfinished for more than a century. Sofar as the intended arrangements can be made out, it wouldhave consisted in the main of one great closed quadrangle,measuring 264 feet from north to south, by 281 feet from eastto west. The portions erected by Wolsey are the hall on thesouth side, with its offices and kitchen, external to the quad- 1 (Wood, ut stipra, p. 367.) 2 This cloister was removed in 1706.
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Fig. 7. Ground plan of Magdalen College, Oxford. 264 THE COLLEGIATE PLAN. (CHAP. rangle ; the rest of the south side, the east side, and part of thewest side, in the centre of which was the gate of entrance.These would have consisted, as now, of ranges of chambers intwo floors. The north side would have been occupied by a largechurch or chapel. Communication between the different partsof the quadrangle was to be effected by an internal cloister. Alibrary was provided by altering a building which had originallybeen the refectory of the Priory of S. Frideswide. This formedthe north side of a small court to the south-east of the largequadrangle. The south and east sides were formed by otherbuildings of the priory altered into chambers ; and the westside by Wolseys kitchen.) Returning to Cambridge, we find that the quadrangle of theBenedictine Hostel founded in 1428, called afterwards Bucking-ham College, and refounded as Magdalene College in 1542, wasplanned as a closed quadrangle, thoug

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