The Practitioner . FAMOUS HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL SCHOOLS. 117 are built round quadrangles of three and four storejs high,one of which has an open gallery like the old inns. A fewyears after this engraving was made the hospital had outgrownits buildings, and it was necessary to rebuild it from the founda-tions between 1725 and 1760. These buildings remain with certain alterations until thepresent day. They were begun in 1729 by James Gibbs, thearchitect of the church of St. Martins-in-the-Fields in London,of the Radcliffe Camera at Oxford, and of the Fellows Buildingsat Kings College, Cambridge.
The Practitioner . FAMOUS HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL SCHOOLS. 117 are built round quadrangles of three and four storejs high,one of which has an open gallery like the old inns. A fewyears after this engraving was made the hospital had outgrownits buildings, and it was necessary to rebuild it from the founda-tions between 1725 and 1760. These buildings remain with certain alterations until thepresent day. They were begun in 1729 by James Gibbs, thearchitect of the church of St. Martins-in-the-Fields in London,of the Radcliffe Camera at Oxford, and of the Fellows Buildingsat Kings College, Cambridge. The buildings are grouped rounda quadrangle (Fig. 4), and consist of four blocks, which wereoriginally connected one with another by archways (Figs. 4and 5). Each of the four blocks is four storeys high, and threeof the four contain wards, the fourth being devoted to administra-tive offices (Fig. 6), the Great Hall, and the Treasurers of the three ward blocks is entered by a plain archwayleading to a gr
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