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CHAPTER II - SOME INTERIORS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2011

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THUS far I have described the general external appearance of the College to any one who walked through its Courts and walks, and I refrained from interrupting my narrative by describing the interiors of the various buildings we passed. I devote this chapter to giving a short account of the interior aspects of the Chapel, Hall, Combination Rooms, Kitchens, and Library.

When walking round the Great Court we passed on its north side the porch leading into the Chapel. Entering by this, we find the interior divided in two unequal parts, the east end being fitted up for worship, the west end forming an Ante-Chapel into which the door from the Great Court leads. The two portions are divided by a screen on the top of which is built the organ. The present building, which is on the site of the Chapel of King's Hall, was finished about 1567, and it is believed that the fittings with which it was then furnished were taken from the Chapel of King's Hall. The present stalls, panel-work, baldachino, and organ-screen were inserted at the beginning of the eighteenth century ; there is a tradition that the old stalls were then moved to St. Michael's Church in Trinity Street.

The Chapel is of poor design, and in 1870 it was proposed to rebuild it.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1906

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