The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . Fig. 2. East front of the Gate of Virtue at Gonville and Caius College, built 1567. by the flatness of the mullion and the square sinking on its the west side, next to the court (fig. 3), the great arch isfour-centered, and the composition has in other ways a mixedcharacter, possibly given to it for the express purpose of makingit harmonise with the chapel. The Porta Honoris (i575)»erected from the especial device and instruction of Dr Caius,has also a four-centered arch, but in all ot
The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . Fig. 2. East front of the Gate of Virtue at Gonville and Caius College, built 1567. by the flatness of the mullion and the square sinking on its the west side, next to the court (fig. 3), the great arch isfour-centered, and the composition has in other ways a mixedcharacter, possibly given to it for the express purpose of makingit harmonise with the chapel. The Porta Honoris (i575)»erected from the especial device and instruction of Dr Caius,has also a four-centered arch, but in all other respects is purely GATES OF ENTRANCE. 549 of the Renaissance on both faces. Yet the ranges of chamberserected at the same time are medieval, but of the simplestcharacter, in doors, windows, and general appearance, as shewnin the two illustrations. The tower-gateway of Clare Hall (1638) is a very striking ex-ample of a composition of pure Renaissance in itself, but formingpart of a facade containing medieval windows with arch-headed. Fig. 3. West front of the Gate of Virtue at Gonville and Caius College, built 1567. lights, and crowned with a battlement. The archway presentsan interesting example of the late use of fan-vaulting. In the same way the western portal of Great S. MarysChurch (1576), the arches of entrance to the chapel of CorpusChristi College (1584), to Magdalene College (1585), and tothe hall of Pembroke College (1635)1—each of them small but 1 [The portal of S. Marys Church was destroyed in 1850; of Corpus ChristiCollege Chapel in 1823 ; and of Pembroke College Hall in 1862.] 550 STYLE OF COLLEGIATE BUILDINGS. complete specimens of pure classical renaissance work of asingle storey in height, were applied to buildings of a medievalcharacter, two of which were erected before the portal of Emmanuel College (1584), the entrance gate-house of Sidney Sussex College (1595) with a four-centeredarch and a classical entablature (both now destroyed) ;
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