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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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feet long. The twobedsteads were of course placedat the corners of the room op-posite to the window-wall, so thatthe four corners of the chamberwere occupied, two by the beds,and two by the studies. We thusobtain the complete arrangementof an Elizabethan college-room,as shewn in the annexed sketch(fig. 4). The windows of thestudies being now blocked up,they have hitherto passed, uponsuperficial observation, for mere SCALE op FEET ? 15 i°1 n 1111 h lL 1 Fig. 3. Plan of the garret-floor of the Legge Building at Gonville and Cains College,measured and drawn by Professor Willis. 20—2 3o8 THE CHAMBERS AND STUDIES. closets. The adjoining garret-floor of the Perse Building hasbeen fitted up in later times, the studies swept away, thechambers used as bedrooms for the rooms respectively beneaththem, and a chimney formed in the gable for the westerngarret. The disposition and the number of the windows shewsthat studies were originally laid out here in the same manneras in the Legge Building.
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Fig. 4. Interior of one of the garrets in the Legge Building at Gonville and Caius College, from a sketch by Professor Willis. These garrets having shewn us that the studies were littlecabinets enclosed at the corners of rooms, it becomes easy totrace the arrangement of them in the more complete roomsbelow which have been altered to suit modern habits. I haveplanned and carefully examined every one of the twenty-eightrooms in these buildings, and find the traces of the studies inso many of them that I am enabled to restore the whole system. PERSE AND LEGGE BUILDINGS. 309 The contracts have told us that on the ground-floor (fig. 5)each chamber had three studies; and the traces which remainshew, as might naturally be expected, that, since the outer door was in one corner, the threeother corners were occupied bythe three studies, one in each. In the Perse Building, whichwas erected first, the rooms andstudies of the ground-floor areregularly and similarly disposedin the manner shewn on t

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