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. 6. Buildings of the Third Court of S. Johns College, 1669—71. carried up in masonry in continuation of the wall. They arenot however arranged with regard to symmetry. At EmmanuelCollege, Sidney Sussex College, the second court of S. JohnsCollege (all the work of Ralph Symons), and in Neviles Courtat Trinity College, as well as in the walnut-tree court at QueensCollege, the Perse Building at Caius College (destroyed 1868),and the second court of Pembroke College, these wall-dormersare arranged at equal distances along the length of the whole 552 STYLE OF COLLEGIATE BUILDINGS.
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SCALE TO ELEVATI O N JO 5 0 10 FEET I I 1 1 I I I I I I I f SCALE TO MOULDINGS2 6 0 I 2 3 4, S 6 FEET luminal) 1 I . ! I I i Fig. 7. One bay of the Fellows Building at Christs College, 1640—42. WINDOWS. 553 building, cresting it as it were with a battlement of gigantic merlons, separated by short intervals of eaves, or, as at S.Johns College and in Neviles Court at Trinity College, by ashort parapet1. In all these examples, which extend to the year1617, the gables are of the old triangular form ; but in the BrickBuilding at Emmanuel College (1633), and (fig. 6) the buildingsin the third court of S. Johns College (1669), their outline ismade up of ogees and semicircles, and the merlons are nolonger the fronts of dormers, but are small and unpierced. Thepurer building of Christs College (1640) still retains these semi-circularly capped merlons on a still smaller scale, but they areconnected by short ranges of genuine balustrades (fig. 7); andhenceforth the dormer-windows, when employe

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