Identifier: architecturalhis03will_0 (find matches)
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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Fig. 2. Ground-plan of the site of the Schools, Senate-House, etc., enlarged fromLoggans Map of Cambridge, 1688. 1 (The full title is : Memoranda Collegii Corporis Christi et beate Marie Cantedita per Magistrum Iohannem Uotwright sancte theorie professorem et capellanumdomini Regis Henrici VP, Rectorem de Swaffham Market, Magistrum siue CustodemCollegii predicti, electron in festo Sancti Marci Evangeliste Anno Domini 1442.) HISTORY OF THE SITE. 5
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Fig. 3. Sketch of the site and buildings of the Schools Quadrangle, drawn about 1459 ; reducedabout one-half from a photograph of the original in the White Book of Corpus Christi College. 6 SCHOOLS, LIBRARY, SENATE-HOUSE. (CHAP. other sources. The streets bounding the site are lettered NorthSchools Street (vicus scolarum borealis), and East Schools Street(vicus scolarum orientalis) respectively; while on the piece leasedby Corpus Christi College, which adjoins the wall bounding thewhole site on the east, we read: Ground of Corpus ChristiCollege, containing in length 30 feet, and in breadth 29 feet, asis evident from the ancient stone wall surrounding it. Withinthis piece of ground is a rude representation of a Doctor of Law,seated in a chair, beneath which is written : Chair of Civil Law?with the stone wall belonging to Corpus Christi College. Onthe west side of this ground a second plot, of about the samesize, is designated : This ground is the remainder of the schoolof Civil Law, pl

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